Word: rottenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charge of abridging the constitutional right of free speech-Norman Thomas, whose Socialist Party claims partial credit for ex posing Jersey City as a place where civil liberties are dead, appeared in Newark's Military Park to berate Mayor Hague publicly. His reward: howls, band music, ripe tomatoes, rotten eggs, an announcement by the park commissioner that hereafter Newark, like Jersey City, will permit no more anti-Hague meetings...
Suppression of civil liberties as found in Jersey City gave the state of New Jersey an evil enough reputation without the recent outburst of repressive tactics in Newark. When Norman Thomas, Socialist leader, underwent a barrage of rotten eggs and ripe fruit Saturday night as he was about to speak against the policies of Mayor Hague, it was apparent that Hague's tactics had spread to the constituency of neighbor Mayor Ellenstein. "I watched this disturbance for ten minutes and at any time the police could have broken it up," said Mr. Thomas, and his charge is a serious...
...Mussolini is certain that France and Britan are rotten to the core. The real danger of his foreign policy is his belief that Great Britain and France must always give in as a result of their pacifism...
...Whoever it may be mentioned Nelson Eddy's dimples in the rotten review of The Girl of The Golden West (March 21), I have some 500 odd photos of the "Dimpled Nelson Eddy," all minus the dimples! I would appreciate it if your movie critic would send me a "dimpled" picture of Mr. Eddy...
...side loft building (No. 239 East 39th Street), which prior to Prohibition had been a brewery. Here on Sundays there was heat but it was sometimes hard to gain admittance. One contributor, bringing his weekly contribution and unable to get in, resorted to drastic means. He picked up a rotten turnip in the street, gave a heave, and it landed amid a shower of glass on the editor's desk...