Word: trenton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lindbergh Case ended on Sept. 19, 1934 when Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested in The Bronx, N. Y. for possession of Lindbergh ransom bills. The Hauptmann Case ended in Trenton, N. J. last week when Hauptmann paid with his life for the murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. (see p. 18). When and how the Hoffman Case would end, no man knew last week, but the political life of New Jersey's Governor Harold Giles Hoffman was indisputably at stake...
...difficulty was to stick to the red-letter historical events, avoid the temptation to wander down fascinating journalistic bypaths. Last week Laurence Greene's historical newspaper scrapbook, America Goes to Press* was published. Of his collection of such classic U. S. front-page stones as the Battle of Trenton, Lee's Surrender at Appomattox, the Chicago Fire, the Custer Massacre, Author Greene explains: "Ours is a bloody history, and blood often makes the best Extras...
Bishop of New Jersey since 1915 has been Rt. Rev. Paul Matthews, portly, white-crowned High Churchman, onetime Dean of the Cathedral in Cincinnati, into whose Procter (Ivory Soap) family he married. Currently Bishop Matthews is engrossed with a slowly rising, million-dollar cathedral of his own, to which Trenton's bridge-building Roeblings have been generous. Nearing 70, Bishop Matthews has indicated a wish to retire. The man who has served as his Bishop Coadjutor, Albion Williamson Knight, retired last autumn because of his years (76). Offered this post with the right of succession, Manhattan...
...that included, besides a number of second-rate opponents, such able teams as Duquesne, Catholic University and Springfield. The L. I. U. basketball squad consists of eight men, most of whom have played together for three years. None has a scholarship. The coach, who also teaches accounting, is a Trenton, N. J. War veteran named Claire...
...Trenton, N. J., Charles Gerofsky's furnace boy, Joseph Duggan, found the Gerofskys out and used the telephone to call Cinemactress Jean Harlow in Hollywood. She was out and he left a message for her to call him back. She did so. after Mr. Gerofsky had come home. Cost...