Word: passaic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...source of income. Better than money, it gave him an opportunity to run for office, spread his gospel. Between campaigns he threw himself into labor disputes, less as an agitator or organizer than as a defender of civil rights. For publicly denouncing the Riot Act to strikers from the Passaic, N. J. textile mills in 1926, he was arrested, jailed, held in $10,000 bail. He was again seized last year for picketing with strikers from the Paterson silk mills. Only last October did he formally demit the Presbyterian ministry...
...Forstmann is regarded as the fore most originator and maker of high-grade woolens in the U. S. He built the American Mills at Passaic, N. J., 30 years ago against the advice of experts who told him. that such woolens as his company made in Werden-on-Ruhr, Germany, could not be duplicated. He created Imperatrice and Beatrice (broadcloths) and most of the vogue-starting woolens including Marvella, Gerona, Charmeen and Chonga. He works alone in designing his fabrics and seeking colors from such sources as the plumage of birds in the Museum of Natural History. On his Kiel...
...night school for employes and their families. Despite this paternalism, and despite the fact that many Forstmann workers are more skilled, hence higher-paid, than the general run of mill workers, the Forstmann company has not escaped the labor troubles which continually harass the textile trades. In the big Passaic Textile strikes of 1926 Mr. Forstmann refused to allow his workers to join the American Federation of Labor, obtaining a permanent injunction against it. His firm even hinted that the factory would be moved unless its laborers behaved. Weaver Forstmann is proud of the fact that his forefathers signed...
...fortunate was Edward Allman, Passaic, N. J. high-school senior. He was watching some javelin throwers practicing. A random throw struck him in the forehead, pierced his brain. He died...
...Kozol 2M, of Brookline and Benjamin Alexander 2M, of Dorchester; DeLamar Research Fellowships, L. F. Bushnell 3M, of Danville, Illinios, Rolf Lium 3M, of Northfield, Minnesota, D. J. Mullane 2M, of Jamaica Plain, D. G. Friend 1M, of Missouri Valley, Iowa, and I. H. Saxe 1M, of Passaic, New Jersey...