Word: wenger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...residential Ridgewood, N. J., Mayor Frank D. Livermore got tired of seeing pickets of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen's Union (A. F. of L.) trudging up & down in front of the Charles F. Wenger stores carrying angry strike signs. Last week, Mayor Livermore submitted to his borough commission a new idea for restricting picketing. He proposed an ordinance imposing a $50 weekly license fee on anyone who wants to carry a sign on Ridgewood's streets. Penalties: $200 fine or 90 days in jail or both. His argument: while a man's civil liberties...
Said Postal Inspector M. G. Wenger: "Evidently the plane - we think it must have been traveling about 207 m.p.h. - thundered head on into the steep-slanting, knife-edge ridge only 20 ft. from its top. Part of the undercarriage and nose, with much of the mail, ripped off upon the ridge, and the rest of the plane, with the seven bodies, plunged off the cliff, striking once about 400 ft. down and then ricocheting off and tumbling some 600 ft. more into the uptilted snow field...
...Leopold Wenger, of the University of Vienna...