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Since the trial, State's Witness Oxman is proved to have been at Woodland, Calif, at the time of the explosion he said he saw. State's Witness MacDonald, whose testimony was garbled to say the least, went to Trenton, N. J., became a waiter there. In 1921 he signed an affidavit that he had seen the bombing but not Mooney & Billings, that he only identified them when told to by the police. After the trial, the presiding judge, Frank Griffin, declared the conviction of Mooney was "one of the dirtiest jobs ever put over." The foreman of the convicting...
...Trenton, N. J. the Board of Education asked a court injunction against the building of Passaic County Airport across the road from a new township school. Board members feared that low flying aircraft would endanger and distract school occupants...
...Trenton, N. J. last week a platform was being concocted for the State Republican Convention by its Resolutions Committee. Outside the meeting room in the Stacy-Trent Hotel, newsgatherers waited excitedly, for in there with the committeemen had marched Dwight Whitney Morrow, nominated fortnight ago to run for the Senate as a Wet (TIME, June 30). Would he prevail upon the State Republican leaders, traditionally Dry in word if not in deed, to make the platform express his revolutionary personal views? If he did, it would be the first time since the passage of the 18th Amendment that its repeal...
Three years ago George Antheil, Trenton (N. J.)-born composer arrived home from Paris, presented in Manhattan a program of his works which included Ballet Méchanique, scored for ten pianos, xylophones, rattles and whistles. Ballet Méchanique had a frosty reception. Critics hooted and Composer Antheil returned immediately to the land which he said understood him better. Yet even Europeans failed him last week at the premiere in Frankfort of his opera Transatlantic or The People's Choice. The scene is a hectic, cocktail-mad Manhattan; the hero a politician who beats his way up from...
Died. Charles Sydney Gilpin, 52, Negro, creator of the title role in Dramatist Eugene O'Neill's Emperor Jones, playwright (Her Other Husband; Listen, Dearie); after a year's nervous breakdown partially due to discouragement; near Trenton...