Word: passaic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Julius Forstmann, 68, wool dynast (board chairman of Forstmann Woolen Co.); after long illness; in Manhattan. Belonging to the fourth generation of a woolen family, he early left his native Germany, started a new business in Passaic, N. J. During World War I he told the Senate Military Affairs Committee that Army uniform specifications reeked, drew up new specifications, still in use, thereby won the Certificate of Distinguished Service from a grateful administration. In 1928 Krupp built him the Orion, then largest yacht afloat (333 ft.), and he began making periodic trips around the world, conducting his business...
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Situated on a ridge of rock that rises above the Passaic, N. J. meadows is the suburban town of Rutherford. Rising above the dead level of contemporary U. S. poetry is William Carlos Williams, one of the town's busiest doctors. A worshiper of beauty and music in a town that is short on both, he jots down poems in any free moment that his medical practice affords. Last month appeared his Complete Collected Poems (New Directions, $3). Unlike the run of poets, Williams does not use his poetry as an escape from his cramped environment...
Harvard Club of New Jersey: John A. Carpenter, of Boonton; John L. Felmeth, of Elizabeth; Allen W. Greene, of Passaic; and Harvey P. Sleeper Jr. of Short Hills...
Founded on waterpower sites controlled by Alexander Hamilton, Passaic, N. J. developed into a beehive of small enterprise. One small Passaic enterprise is Canal Co., a neckwear shop employing 40 people and owned by one Max Brenner and the Brothers Tuckman, Jack & Kenneth. Monopolist Hamilton must have started in his grave last week when Canal Co. locked out its employes until they joined the union (C. I. O.'s Textile Workers' Organizing Committee". The company stated: "We are paying union wages and we sell our products to union houses, so we see no reason why ours should...