Word: hackensack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...press (TIME, March 7). Wrote Rev. John A. Toomey, S.J., in announcing the contest: "It is anti-Catholic bias if it misleads readers on any Catholic question." Last week, announcing the prizewinners, America attributed bias to the following publications, in the following order: 1) Bergen Evening Record (Hackensack, N. J.), 2) The Apprentice (New York University undergraduate magazine), 3) Ladies' Home Journal, 4) Fact Digest, 5) Esquire, 6) Foreign Affairs, 7) the Portland, Ore. Journal, 8) Liberty, 9) the New York Times...
Doubly saluted for keeping up the health standards which twice before had earned them kudos were: Baltimore, Hackensack (N. J.), Newark, Palo Alto (Calif.), Schenectady...
This scheme was tried out in Hackensack, N. J. by Newark's station WOR. Rather than manufacture and install a large number of Hopkins radiovoting attachments, a crude equivalent was resorted to. Listeners were asked to switch on an extra 40-watt bulb in the house when WOR's announcer gave the signal for a vote. The resultant bulge on the powerhouse chart showed that about 6,100 listeners had thus balloted...
...serious defect then appeared. The sudden load increase nearly overtaxed the Hackensack generators; it was evident that the votes of an audience several times bigger would have wrought havoc with the power plant. Moreover, the broadcasters could not help wondering how many lazy or indifferent listeners had simply not bothered to switch on a bulb, although they were listening to the program...
...Strong of New Brunswick, N. J., Harvard Club of New Jersey; Roger L. Werner, of St. Louis, Mo., Harvard Club of St. Louis; Calvin Williams, of Hollis, Long Island, N. Y., the William Patton Boyd Scholarship of the Harvard Club of Long Island; and Paul N. Williams, of Hackensack, N. J., Harvard Club of New Jersey...