Word: weehawken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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GRIDLEY ADAMS Chairman National Flag Committee Weehawken...
...wife was spending the evening in Manhattan, so when Harry Greene, a contractor of Weehawken, N. J., was offered a chance last week to see the inside of "God's Kingdom No. 1," headquarters of Harlem's benign black Major ("Father") Divine, he accepted eagerly. His friend Paul Comora, a process server, was to hand a summons to Father Divine, against whom a onetime follower named Jessie Birdsall had brought suit for $2,000 which, she said, represented savings she had turned over to the Harlem "God." Greene and Comora arrived at the Kingdom, a big brick building...
...wedding in 1924 was not quite so quiet as the bride & groom had planned. The best man, famed Watercolorist John Marin, met the couple at the Weehawken ferry with the Chandler touring car his son, John Jr. still drives, smashed a lamp post and a grocery wagon and fought with a policeman before his friends were delivered to a justice of the peace at Cliffside...
...infant to Manhattan, followed his father into the catering trade, was manager for 22 years of a newshawks' and politicians' restaurant in Manhattan's Chambers Street. Pink & white, still professionally appreciative of good cooking, Artist Young has his studio in the basement of his Weehawken Heights, N. J. home, gets from $5 to $48 for his etchings. For the snowscapes for which he has developed such a sensitivity, Etcher Young bundles up in woolens, leather boots, skating cap, takes along an umbrella to protect his sketching block, placidly stands in snowbanks until he is satisfied with...
...well-to-do shipping broker decided to go into business for himself. Backed by friends' money, he bought a dozen British freighters grown rusty in the Australia trade, reconditioned them as automobile transports. He installed high-speed elevators in his ships, similarly equipped his docks at Antwerp and Weehawken, N. J., carried nothing but uncrated automobiles, saved exporters up to $300 per car. As automobile exports from the U. S. mounted, Arnold Bernstein Line prospered mightily until he had a 65% monopoly in that branch of foreign trade...