Word: trenton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With this scene enacted, Frank Hague took his affable puppet to Trenton to be inaugurated as the first New Jersey Governor to serve three terms. Before receiving the State's Great Seal from Harold G. Hoffman, the man he gave it to three years before, Mr. Moore wrote himself a letter of resignation as U. S. Senator. His first act in office was to acknowledge and approve his own resignation, Ms next was to appoint John Milton to the U. S. Senate...
...task of finding out who was responsible for finding Bruno Richard Hauptmann. In 1932, New Jersey posted a reward of $25,000 for the capture of the kidnapper. Ever since Hauptmann was executed two years ago the State has been trying to decide who earned it. This week in Trenton, Governor Harold G. Hoffman announced ten recipients...
Under the Most Rev. Thomas Joseph Walsh, 64, its bishop since 1928, the diocese of Newark with a large Italian population has long been populous. Previously part of the ecclesiastical province of New York, Newark will now head a province including the diocese of Trenton, and the New Jersey dioceses of Paterson and Camden, whose bishops are to be named this week...
...Trenton (pop. 370) is the proud seat of triangular Dade County at Georgia's northwest corner, only a few miles across the State line from Chattanooga. The towering bluffs of Lookout Mountain cut the county off from its own State, help keep its population at less than five to the square mile. When highway construction-last month closed the road to Chattanooga, township Mayor I. H. Wheeler quickly asked the Southern Railway to stop its crack New York-New Orleans limited at Trenton to supplement the sole, inconveniently-timed local. The 10:25 a. m. northerly limited would land...
Hopping mad when their request was ignored, Trenton's township council last week passed two ordinances that produced a swift reply from the railroad: 1) Trains passing through the mile of township were restricted to five miles per hour. 2) Blowing of whistles in the township was prohibited. Twenty-four hours later the Southern agreed that if the township would rescind its ordinance, the railroad would stop its trains on request...