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...aroused, smashing down his opponents' positions one by one with irresistible logic." Secretary of the Treasury Mills had worn his voice down to a hoarse croak. Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, unable to restrain his language longer, blurted out that Governor Roosevelt was "a common, garden variety of liar." Montclair, N. J. put up 327 street flags for the coming of Secretary of the Navy Adams. After a protest against their use on a political occasion authorities ordered the flags down. Town Commissioner Washington Irving Lincoln Adams (distant relative) ordered them back up again. Hardly had they been placed...
Brooklyn and Boston, Princeton and Montclair heard the polished periods of Newton Diehl Baker. His refrain: "The Hawley-Smoot tariff was conceived in sin and born in iniquity." He charged that with this law the Republicans declared economic war on the rest of the world...
Four days before election Newton Diehl Baker has his most important date of the campaign, at Montclair, N. J.* Beside the onetime Secretary of War on the platform is to sit a man with a shaggy white mane who is running for Freeholder of Essex County.† After Mr. Baker has warmed himself up on the Roosevelt-Garner ticket, he is to unleash all his eloquence as a partisan advocate in behalf of this local candidate, who happens to be his older brother Frank...
...Shortly afterward the friend cracked up, killed himself and a passenger. "Casey" abandoned flying until 1917 when the Army called for aviators. Already he had been rejected by Army, Navy and Marines because of a heart lesion. (He had twelve varsity letters for athletics, had been physical director at Montclair Academy, N. J. for two years.) For the air service "Casey" was examined by an enormously fat doctor who tried to show how he wanted Jones to bend over, jump up & down. "Casey" guffawed, pointed to his record as physical instructor. Flustered, the doctor passed...
...output of the Trenton companies is controlled by American Cigar Co., subsidiary of American Tobacco. President of American Cigar is Albert Hayes Gregg who has been in the cigar business over 30 years. He lives in Montclair, N. J., drives his car to Manhattan daily, never carries cigars or cigarets. But the drawers of his desk are filled with both. His favorite cigar is a Corona Coronas and, like every other employe of the big cigaret companies, he smokes his firm's leading brand...