Word: trenton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Trenton convened the National Association of Fortune Tellers (membership: 110) to plan the profession's 1937 program. Keynoted President Helena A. (''Gypsy Lee") Perota of Manhattan: "Fortune telling is not going to escape modernization. It will undergo a streamlining process. . . . It will have a regard for those who have practiced predicting in the past, read palms, stars, handwriting, cards, head bumps and tea leaves. But 1936 has ushered in a new era in the profession with introduction of beer suds reading. The results are as accurate as those obtained from other readings...
...Moines. No sounder token of his candidacy had he received when, on his arrival at Trenton, Mo., a woman held up an infant to the rear platform. Its name was Alfred Landon Claybrook, born June 30, 1936. Instead of kissing it the candidate patted its cheek, said: "He's a fine looking young man." After seven stops en route, the Landon Special pulled into Des Moines. The city's Democrats had apparently monopolized the streets near the railroad station to give the GOP Nominee the cold stare. Reception grew warmer as the procession reached the business section. Opposite...
...unite with other jobless unions, notably the National Unemployment Councils, Communist Herbert Benjamin's organization of radical-minded unemployed which had been staging intermittent "hunger marches" on the U. S. Capitol ever since 1931. Three weeks later, members of this new and larger Workers Alliance invaded Trenton, N. J., occupied the State House, jeered the Legislature with abandon, were finally thrown out by police for their bad manners (TIME, May 4). Last week's Harrisburg extravaganza was on a pattern rapidly becoming standard practice whenever a State Legislature stalls on jobless relief...
...Trenton, N. J. last January one Joe Duggan, 14-year-old furnace tender, had the effrontery to call Jean Harlow in Hollywood on a telephone belonging to his employer, Charles Gerofsky. He spoke to her secretary, left a message which later caused Miss Harlow to call surprised Mr. Gerofsky. Last week the New Jersey Bell Telephone Co. arrived at a satisfactory settlement of its suit to make disgusted Mr. Gerofsky pay $20.35 for the long-distance call. Said Furnace Boy Duggan: "Gee, I'm sorry, Mr. Gerofsky. It was just an idea I had and I guess it wasn...
...they could find was a case of catchup. The rest of the goods had long since been sold, the proceeds pocketed by the Brothers Ziongas. Later it was learned that the Ziongas ring had similarly and simultaneously diverted another $75,000 worth of groceries through a dummy concern in Trenton...