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...prepared to close in on Harold J. Laski, Chairman of the Labor Party. The occasion was a remark which Laski, professor of political science and author of 19 books and countless pamphlets, chiefly on the necessity of leftism, was alleged to have made at a Labor Party rally in Newark, Nottinghamshire. To a question from the crowd, Laski was reported (by the Nottingham Guardian, and later by Lord Beaverbrook's cockalorum conservative London Daily Express) to have replied: "If we cannot get the reforms we desire, we shall not hesitate to use violence, even if it means revolution...
...Pont de Nemours Co., Inc., long a favorite target for trust busters, had been indicted nine times in the last three years on antitrust charges. It has been widely pictured as a participant in international cartels ranging from titanium to dyestuffs. Last week's acquittal in Newark's Federal Court cleared the company (along with its board chairman Lammot...
...Snuff. In Newark, police discovered that practically all the patrons of Ah Lee Chung's den were required to bring their own opium...
...Vincent Rizzitello, a small, wiry, 26-year-old combat infantryman from Newark, N.J., was at Fort Dix, a replacement center near Trenton, N.J. What victory in Europe mostly meant to him was that he would probably be seeing something of the Pacific...
Student and Stowaway. A meteoric manager, Harris (real name: Jacob Horowitz) is a volcanic man. Born in Newark (though he later said he was born in Vienna), he read omnivorously at Yale for two years, then quit. He bummed his way west and then abroad, coming home a stowaway in a tramp steamer. Home now meant Broadway. Harris became a press agent for the Shuberts and "stamped and cried with rage" at the way his bosses butchered scripts. When he had saved up $3,000 he started producing...