Word: rahway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were getting sick & tired of the indignities directed their way. The name was not quite as bad as Dogpatch or Skunk Hollow, but it was not even granted the same recognition. When Mahwah appeared on envelopes, mail sorters sighed patiently, made a correction and directed the letter to Rahway or Mohawk. Last week the aroused businessmen of Mahwah took a quarter-page advertisement in the New York Times to set people straight about their town...
Gerald Y. Genn '48, of Lowell House and Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, was reelected President of the Crimson Network last night. Other officers elected were: Lloyd F. Peskoe '48 of Eliot House and Rahway, New Jersey, Business Manager; Charles A. O'Brien '50 of Lowell House and Lawrence, Program Manager;s and John V. Bouyoncos '49 of Lowell House and East Lansing, Michigan, Technical Director...
...picture looked like good news: two men, one a policeman, appeared to have rescued a small boy from an icy stream (see cut). But when newspaper readers looked at the caption, they learned that three-year-old Peter Shoukimas of Cranford, N.J. was dead. He had drowned in the Rahway River. His mother said that he was always slipping away to watch the river. "It utterly fascinated him," she said...
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...eight Nazi saboteurs who landed in the U.S. by submarine in June 1942 led the FBI to Krepper. As the FBI methodically ran every inch of the saboteurs' clothing through invisible-ink developers, an address appeared on a plain white handkerchief. It was: "Pas [Pastor] Krepper, Route 2, Rahway...