Word: newark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal Judge William Clark of Newark last week added to the history of Free Speech in Jersey City by ruling, in favor of C.I.O. and the Civil Liberties Union, that Boss Frank Hague must let them move freely about, distribute circulars, display placards, but may still require permits for public addresses and control the composition of mass audiences. Red-hating Boss Hague promptly announced: "Our position is exactly the same...
Every patriot knows that the U. S. flag should never touch ground or trail in water. In Newark, N. J. superpatriotic Scoutmaster Stephen F. Walker of Boy Scout Troop No. 77 shuddered last year when two aluminum reproductions of the great seal of the U. S. were embedded in the floor of Newark's Post Office Building, where heedless visitors trod on them. Scoutmaster Walker protested to the postmaster, to Postmaster General Farley, to Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, to the President of the U. S. Then he enrolled other superpatriots in his crusade, marched in a cordon...
...Socialist Norman Thomas' complaint about being bums-rushed out of Jersey City. (Although the State Supreme Court found against Mr. Thomas on another complaint last week, he still has the solace of a hearing against two of Boss Hague's policemen before a Federal grand jury at Newark...
...United Air Lines and Bell Telephone Laboratories also were at work on safety. One afternoon last week United Air Lines' flying laboratory, went up from Newark Airport carrying a new type of altimeter mounted beside a regular barometric altimeter. Up the Hudson River it flew at 800 feet, both dials registering alike. But as it crossed towering George Washington Bridge, the reading on the new altimeter dropped to 500 feet. Few miles farther on the plane banked sharply, headed for the Palisades, still flying at 800 feet by the barometric altimeter. As it approached the sheer bluff the other...
Working seven days a week, 52 weeks a year, at 46 he fidgets with surplus energy. His advertising business, though large, leaves him with time on his hands. This time he gives to his career as a broadcaster. In 1933, with Arde Bulova, he bought station WAAM (Newark), consolidated with station WODA (Paterson, N.J.), called the combination station WNEW. As WNEW's president, Broadcaster Biow infused the station with his own nervous vitality, put it on a 24-hour broadcasting day. A tireless dispenser of night-time recorded music, it is a great favorite with Manhattan's taxi...