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...Author. Critic Van Wyck Brooks, born in Plainfield, N. J. in 1886, since his graduation from Harvard has been associated with the Doubleday, Page and Century publishing houses; has associate-edited The Freeman and the first American Caravan. Ill health forced him to desert the Caravan. He lives with his wife and two sons in Westport, Conn. Generally conceded one of America's few serious critics, Critic Brooks takes as the theme of all his work the peculiar opportunities and disabilities of U. S. literati. Of his study of Emerson, he says: "What I wished to convey was a convincing...
Studded with good middle-class suburbs are Morris and Union counties in New Jersey. Together they compose the State's 5th Congressional district, hold 10% of its population. Elizabeth is an industrial entity unto itself but in Morristown, Mendham, Madison, Summit. Plainfield et al. live countless families whose heads have 9:30-to-4:30 o'clock jobs in the city, who are not quite so socially smart as the residents of Somerset County (Far Hills, Bernardsville, Peapack) with 10-to-4 o'clock jobs, but who do hold a higher head than...
...district gone Democratic in a Congressional election. Last October Ernest R. Ackerman, its Republican Congressman for the past twelve years, died. To succeed him the Republicans nominated Donald H. McLean, local lawyer; the Democrats named Percy Hamilton Stewart. Nominee Stewart, a commuting Manhattan attorney, was once Mayor of Plainfield. His wife is the granddaughter of the late Alexander Smith, carpet tycoon. Since both men were Wet, the Stewart-McLean campaign, brief and bitter, turned only on national issues. Republican McLean asked for a vote of confidence in the Hoover Administration, eulogized the President's attempts to combat Depression. Democrat...
...hurt or killed. In some cities even such a homely thing as the family wash may cause cracked skulls, bombings. Last week saw the continuation of a new kind of peacetime war. The Nation's milk, product of patient kine, beverage of babies, churned up in violence.* Near Plainfield, Ill. The Guernsey herd of Isaac Lentz, an independent dairyman who had withdrawn from a local milk distributing association and cut his price, lay in their stalls placidly swishing their tails and chewing their nocturnal cuds. Suddenly Farmer Lentz heard a mighty roar. Running outside he discovered that his barn...
Died. Ernest R. Ackerman, 68, U. S. (Republican) Representative since 1919 of the 5th New Jersey District, onetime president of the New Jersey State Senate, member of the House Appropriations Committee; of heart disease; in Plainfield, N. J. An ardent philatelist, he owned $1,000,000 worth of postage stamps, had swapped with King George V and King Victor Emmanuel...