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Eight stony-faced men sat in Manhattan's Federal Court last week and heard a veteran blackmailer call them blackmailers. The Government had charged that the eight men (seven ex-Capone hoodlums and one Newark labor official) had shaken down the movie industry for $1 million...
...promptly ordered the "unconditional return" of all strikers. The Johnsville strikers did not obey. But when local U.A.W. leaders tried to spread the strike to Brewster plants at Long Island City, N.Y. and Newark, N.J., they found WLB's threat effective. Workers from the two Long Island City plants meeting in New York's Queensboro Arena, turned down an immediate strike call, voted instead to abide by the law calling for a 30-day cooling-off period. Next day, the Johnsville strikers went back, with nothing to show for their walkout except four days' lost production...
...Institute flourishes in a single handsome red-brick building, Fuld Hall, at the west end of town. Fuld is surrounded by lush Institute acres-site of the Revolutionary Battle of Princeton. The Institute's founders, Louis Bamberger (of the great Newark department store) and his sister, Mrs. Felix Fuld, have given the scholars $8,000,000 worth of scholarly apparatus and comforts...
...Mayor finally, reluctantly told reporters that Mr. Moore would not run, because of his health. (You could have knocked hale A. Harry over with an aspirin tablet when reporters told him he was ill.) As Moore was thus given the Jersey bounce. Governor Edison announced his support of Newark's Mayor Vincent J. Murphy, who, as secretary of the New Jersey A.F. of L., is acceptable to labor. Two hours later, Frank Hague, breathing hard, boarded the bandwagon...
Newcomer. Observers rated Candidate Murphy as little more than a common Garden State variety of politician. A onetime plumber, he was a $28-a-week union official when elected to Newark's City Commission in 1937. As Newark's Mayor (since 1941), he has worked hard...