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Died. Nathan Barnert, 89, one of the two Jews to whom statues have been erected publicly in the U. S. (TIME, Dec. 26); at Paterson, N. J.; of pneumonia...
...that the magazine has started a campaign*. When the statue goes up it will be only the third statue publicly erected to a Jew in the U. S. One of the others is in Manhattan, raised for Heinrich Heine, poet. The other is on the city hall square of Paterson, N. J., and honors Nathan Barnert, twice mayor of Paterson. Mr. Barnert began business in Paterson in 1855, four years after it was incorporated as a city.† He prospered; became owner of silk mills; gave away his money-for a hospital, a nurses' home, a home...
...many a U. S. mind-anti-Semitism. Its columns carried Jewish articles which culminated in Aaron Sapiro's suit on Mr. Ford for $1,000,000. Immense publicity was thrust on the magazine. The vigor of its warcries caused its banishment from public libraries in Portland, Me., Paterson, N. J., St. Louis, Detroit, Toledo, Cincinnati. Chicago and Columbus, 0., forbid its newsboys to cry The Dearborn Independent...
...Paterson, N. J., two young teachers wanted to get married to two young men. The teachers, Helen C. Friedman and Marguerite B. Ellis, asked for permission to take honeymoons after their weddings. At this, there was turmoil among the members of the School Board. "Rubbish!" shouted one member. "Do taxpayers like myself pay cash so that young women, mere chits, may go off and enjoy themselves?" Said Commissioner John Grimshaw Jr., a bachelor: "They can get married after school-hours, whether we like it or not. It would be petty business to refuse to let them take their honeymoons...
...digging students had heard about John P. Holland, Paterson schoolteacher who, more than a half century ago, helped develop submarine navigation from an affair of iron or copper tubs driven by handscrews to a science of military importance. They had heard how he ventured down under the Passaic River's surface in one of his first models, with a boy to steer while he himself manned the pumps. When craft failed to reappear, divers had rescued Inventor Holland and the boy from the river bottom. The imperfect submarine had been hoisted up, dragged ashore, abandoned. Inventor Holland's late fame...