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...Teaneck, NJ...
Standard Oil Co. of NJ. this week added its name to the growing list of U.S. companies urging lower tariffs. In a statement to the Clarence Randall Commission, Jersey Standard said: "Deterrents to international trade or investment . . . in U.S. laws or regulations should be reduced to the fullest possible extent consistent with national security, and . . . any further restrictions . . . should be avoided as injurious to our country and its citizens...
...over the U.S. were thousands of mimeographed requests for signatures on a petition addressed to the President of the U.S. The petition's seven sponsors made an impressive list of American leaders from both parties: ex-President Herbert Hoover, ex-Ambassador (to Japan) Joseph C. Grew, ex-Governor (NJ.) Charles Edison, Republican Senator (N.J.) H. Alexander Smith, Democratic Senator (Ala.) John Sparkman, Republican Representative (Minn.) Walter H. Judd, Democratic Representative (Mass.) John W. McCormack. The petition...
...Orange, NJ...
Born in Hoboken, NJ. in 1894, Alfred Charles Kinsey was the son of a self-made man who had started as a shopboy at Stevens Institute of Technology, and later headed its department of mechanical arts. Little Alfred spent most of his first ten years in bed, beset by rickets, heart trouble and finally typhoid fever (which nearly killed him). Then the family moved ten miles from smoggy Hoboken to the green hills of South Orange, and Alfred's health improved. He speaks with almost ferocious intensity of what South Orange meant to him: 'Twas raised in city...