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...biggest wastepaper converters in the East, Clifton is a family-owned business. The family is the Desiderios, father and seven sons. Frank Desiderio, a strapping, grey-haired Italian, arrived in the U. S. in 1904, penniless, unemployed, unable to speak English. On borrowed money he bought a pushcart, tramped Newark's streets collecting wastepaper. In two years he had a horse and wagon, traded them for a two-cylinder Autocar in 1918. By 1926 the Desiderios owned a 100-truck fleet. When the old Clifton firm went bankrupt six years ago, they turned up with a batch of uncollected...
...Jersey's supreme court upheld indictments of Meyer C. Ellenstein, Democratic mayor of Newark, N. J., and 29 other persons charged with fraudulent municipal land deals...
...Newark more than 20 families wrapped their faces in wet towels to save themselves from the gas raid, tied up traffic with their calls for gas masks, inhalators, ambulances, police rescue squads...
...Michael's Hospital, Newark, treated 15 people for shock. A man called the Dixie Bus Terminal, shouting "The World is coming to an end and I've got a lot to do!" It was said that President Roosevelt was on the radio telling everybody to pack up and go north...
...experiment: When Governor Herbert Lehman spoke from Albany over Station WOR (Newark), Announcer Richard Brooks stood by, slipped murmured interpolations into the microphone. As though the Governor were talking some foreign language the listeners could not understand. Announcer Brooks used intervals of applause to repeat and interpret sections of the speech. Not only did he report a sip of water the speaker took, but he also declared repeatedly that his candidate had scored heavily on Republican Opponent Thomas E. Dewey. Listeners capable of understanding the speech without translation protested. Others kicked about the announcer's editorializing. The Brooks murmuring...