Word: newark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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General Hugh Johnson-who did his political duty by addressing a Victory Dinner at Newark, N. J.-best described the spirit of the occasion when he wrote that the dinners were "backed by a big enough election triumph to justify serving stewed elephants." The 1,300 Mayflower diners ate their way in triumph through terrapin soup, pompano, breast of capon, coupe nougat quarante-six (Maine & Vermont excepted). But when Franklin Roosevelt rose and began to speak, the levity ended. His first few words were spoken with his most studied earnestness. He was addressing the electorate far more than his Party...
...opinion of many a Washington newshawk last week the New Deal lost one of its ablest pressagents when Henry West Suydam, Special Executive Assistant to Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings, resigned to write political articles and editorials for the Newark News. A onetime registered Republican, Henry Suydam joined Mr. Cummings' staff in 1934, brought about an immediate improvement in his principal's "press." No snowstorm of mimeographed releases blew from Mr. Suydam's office, but news-leads which Washington correspondents were usually glad...
...himself. Brooklyn-born and Dutch-speaking, he was World War Correspondent for the Brooklyn Eagle. He ran the Eagle's Washington Bureau from 1922 until he left to help out Homer Cummings. In his old office in the Colorado Building, Henry Suydam was a neighbor of the Newark News's Correspondent Arthur J. Sinnott, now his boss as editor-in-chief. Old acquaintance of the News's Publisher Edward W. Scudder, greying, cultivated Henry Suydam is 45, goes in for etchings and the piano...
Four days later Homer Martin, President of the United Automobile Workers, invaded New Jersey and made a speech at Newark in answer to Mr. Hoffman. He pointed out that strikes are legal. "What is the difference," he asked "if a man sits down inside or sits down outside?" The only difference he could find was that sitting down inside is easier and safer for the striker. To the argument that sit-down strikes break property laws, he argued back that the right to a good pay check is a property right just as much as the right to own property...
This scheme was tried out in Hackensack, N. J. by Newark's station WOR. Rather than manufacture and install a large number of Hopkins radiovoting attachments, a crude equivalent was resorted to. Listeners were asked to switch on an extra 40-watt bulb in the house when WOR's announcer gave the signal for a vote. The resultant bulge on the powerhouse chart showed that about 6,100 listeners had thus balloted...