Word: weehawken
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...receive his inspiration from Felix Frankfurter and the Harvard Law School. From Columbia he returned across the Hudson to his home town of Union City, N. J., where he soon entered the firm of Platoff, Saperstein & Platoff. The Platoffs and the Sapersteins were old neighbors in suburban Weehawken. Mr. Pecora took him to Washington as his chief assistant in the Senate Banking & Currency Committee investigation. David Saperstein used to play semi-pro baseball, now loves poker and the writing of unpublished plays...
Later that night the same ship was running up the Hudson River off Weehawken, N. J. Customs Inspector Michael Guilfoyle was not suspicious of her but since he had just been ordered to watch every ship closely, he hailed her. "We're bound for Albany," the skipper replied. "We can't stop in this tide." The inspector noted the name on her bow, Texas Ranger. He recognized her cut and markings as familiar, let her go through...
...special places. One afternoon last week five sleek Pullman cars backed into the little West Shore R. R. town of Highland, N. Y. Late that evening President Roosevelt, crossing the Mid-Hudson Bridge from his Hyde Park estate, boarded the train and it sped down the river to Weehawken. In the dead of night, under heavy police escort, the five Pullmans threaded their rumbly way through mazy miles of freight yards which had not seen a passenger train, much less a Presidential special, in 40 years. They finally emerged on the Baltimore & Ohio tracks beyond Jersey City and at dawn...
...vigilance committee of 250 Democratic lawyers went to bawdy Camden to see that their party got full justice at the polls. Among 30 vigilantes who were arrested and cuffed were James A. and John E. Tumulty, nephews of President Wilson's private secretary. There were disorders in Jersey City, Weehawken, Atlantic City, Hoboken, Paterson. A harried judge of Common Pleas Court called it "a Mexican election." Outcome was a whopping victory for Arthur Harry Moore, 52, Democratic nominee for Governor. He was the third man in the State's long history to be twice elected Governor...
...West Shore Railroad. The ferry service on the main line between Garrison and West Point is inadequate for the traffic anticipated. The football specials will leave as follows: Leave New York (foot Cortlandt Street), 10.45 a.m.; leave New York (foot West Forty-second Street), 11 A.M., 12 noon; leave Weehawken (West Shore Station), 11.15 A.M., 12.15 A.M.,; arrive West Point...