US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph appears with the headline, "Each Year Brings New Grist of News and Here Are Things That 1938 Brought," Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec 1938: 8. A picture of a newspaper clipping of Mayor Hague pointing his finger. The caption underneath the photo is: (NY15) NEW YORK, DEC.9--"ABOLISH JUVENILE COURTS"--Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City is shown as he drove home a point today as he told New York's Joint Legislative committee on law enforcement that he is going to abolish his city's juvenile courts and correctional agencies. Meanwhile Rep. Jerry J. O'Connell (D-Mont) termed "independent" Hague's reply to a letter asking about police interference with labor organizere. (cwp4l640stf) 1937. This photograph is part of a collage of world events of 1938. Text from negative sleeve: 15381- Jersey City Mayor Frank Hague (Mayor) (used in events of 1938 montage, 12/30/38 article, "Each Year Brings New Grist...") [stamped:] Jan 19 1939 Handwritten on negative: 10 Reverse Text from newspaper caption: The year 1938 was a year of war jitters and jitterbugs, world-shaking events such as a nation losing its identity and such trivia as the Lambeth Walk. In between there were many other happenings, which, though not great news events, held the attention of the public for a time and gave character to 1938. This page presents an array of such events. Starting at top left-hand corner and going across the page row by row are pictures which should refresh the money on the following stories: Peter Levine kidnaping murder-Barbara Hutton's break with her Danish Count-Hedy Lamarr's leap to film fame-Paul Wright's trial for murder-Andrea Luckenbach's marriage to butter-and-eggs salesman-all Europe buys gas masks-Greta Garbo's and Leopold Stokowski's Riviera interlude-vanishing of Samoan Clipper-Mayor Hague's rule over Jersey City-the up or down hair-do tempest - John Roosevelt's marriage - Woody Hockaday's antics - King and Queen of England visit Paris - James Cash kidnaping murder-Orson Welles Martian invasion scare-Prince Gustaf of Sweden visits America-Philip La Follette's third party-Governor O'Daniel's Texas campaign-Barbara Carrol, figure in strange murder tangle-Father Divine falls heir to Crum Elbow, estate next Roosevelt's-daughter born to Dutch princess.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_14771 ark:/21198/zz002j8dwj
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Pointing fingers Mayors--New Jersey--Jersey City Hague, Frank, 1876-1956
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