Word: hackensack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hackensack, N. J., Dr. Lawrence Martin Collins, senior resident of the New Jersey State Hospital for the insane, declared that he had given Daughter Hewitt a thoroughgoing examination only last November, found her entirely free of mental taint. She could, he said, speak & write French fluently, speak Italian, and had read Shakespeare, Dickens, various histories and a book called The Philosophy of Life. "It is my belief," said he, "that this young girl has been conditioned during her early formative years by an unwholesome environment, and that any intellectual deficiencies which may be present are due not to any pathological...
Died. Le Grand Parish, 67, retired president of Lima Locomotive Works, one-time associate of Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of freight car door locks and improved railway brakes; of a heart attack; in Hackensack...
Zangara arrived in the U. S. in 1923. He worked as a brick mason in Hackensack and Paterson, N. J. He was quiet and solitary, had no police record. But one employer recalled that he harangued fellow-workers against "the rich and powerful'' during lunch hours. In 1929 he was naturalized, later registering as a Republican voter. In 1926 his appendix was removed. Suffering from stomach ulcers he roamed the country restlessly. This chronic complaint evidently warped his reason, excited him to last week...
...Frida Vodegel, who helps her husband run a dachshund kennel in North Hackensack, N. J., did not notice a pile of fresh meat, tied in neat little rolls, lying just inside their fence one morning last week. But the 15 pure-bred dachshunds which she let out for an airing soon scented it. Scurrying on their stubby, crooked legs, they tumbled and fought in their eagerness to snap up the juicy morsels...
...allowed to work in Brandle's territory without being threatened or actually attacked. More than 100 men from Brandle's local with iron bars, baseball bats, etc. attacked six Newark men on the Medical Center job in Jersey City. This same thing happened on a job in Hackensack and a repetition happened again in Bayonne. We have tried every way possible to get adequate support from our general officers and have failed, even to the extent of having our meetings suspended...