Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he came to Morris Ernst who is also counsel for the American Newspaper Guild, the Mayor in his peculiar idiom cried that Lawyer Ernst had "organized newspapermen into Communism." From a Guild reporter in the press section, clear and loud, came one word: "Nuts...
...interrupted?" shouted the Mayor. A policeman shouldering through the crowd to find the culprit tapped the elephantine shoulder of Columnist Heywood Broun, Guild President, who denied his guilt. But the Mayor noticed nothing. He was launched on his peroration. Thus last week, was the C., I. O. exorcised from Jersey City...
...however, C. I. O.'s attempt to exorcise Mayor Hague. One of the chief legal problems in fighting Mayor Hague is difficulty of getting arrested in Jersey City. Anyone the Mayor considers undesirable is simply bundled out of town, and for years Arthur Garfield Hays has been battling for the "Constitutional right of every American to be arrested." Last week in Manhattan several days before the great rally, while Mr. Hays was delivering a radio attack on Mayor Hague over station WEVD, an unidentified young woman, passing as a reporter, slipped into the studio. Edging up to the speaker...
Though the Workers Defense League recently managed to hold a small Jersey City meeting in an abandoned church with Norman Thomas and Oswald Garrison Villard as speakers, a C. I. O. meeting was an impossibility. One of Mayor Hague's speakers proclaimed at last week's rally: "I have lived here all my life and have never seen the day when I couldn't say anything I had on my mind." But next day a New York Herald Tribune reporter searched the city without avail for a man in the street who would talk for quotation about...
Though some 40 suits are to be filed against Mayor Hague's officials by C. I. 0. organizers and sympathizers, the C. I. O. places most faith in one filed last week by C. I. O. Counsel Dean Spaulding Frazer of the Newark University Law School in Federal Court on the ground that the plaintiffs -the Civil Liberties Union, the Steel Workers Organizing Committee and several C. I. O. unions-were "without adequate remedy in the local court of law." In substance, they asked for a perpetual injunction to restrain Mayor Hague from ignoring the Bill of Rights...