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1. A journey into Jersey City's Journal Square
(Life/Style)

... Square was the cultural entertainment center of Hudson County, home to the movies palaces built in the 1920s: The State (1922), the Stanley (1928), and the Loew's Jersey (1929). By one version of the story, ...

2. Camden was once a hub of music
(Life/Style)

... the Victor Talking Machine Company. From 1901 through 1929, Camden was headquarters of the Victor Talking Machine Company, and thereafter to its successor RCA Victor, the world's largest manufacturer ...

3. Exactly who was Joe E. Brown?
(Entertainment/Movies)

... Gardner. A few weeks before, I had seen him in "Sally" (1929), the old musical with the Jerome Kern song "Look for the Silver Lining." His dance with Marilyn Miller is one of the film's highlights. (Miller ...

4. N.J. bridges and tunnels honor people of Jersey's history
(Life/Style)

... Goodkind, built in 1974. The northbound span, a concrete arch bridge, is named after Donald's father, Morris Goodkind and was completed in 1929, reflecting the Art Deco styling of the time, and was officially ...

5. Princeton professor emeritus Robert Tucker, renowned Soviet expert and Stalin biographer, dead at 92
(Life/Style)

... his scholarship and teaching for decades. He published two seminal biographies of Stalin, "Stalin as Revolutionary: A Study in History and Personality, 1879-1929" (1973) and "Stalin in Power: The Revolution ...

6. Keynes, Obama and the future
(Opinion/Commentary)

... Depression of 1929, the United States ran a national debt that was typically about 15-18% of GDP. Post the Great Depression, this number climbed to about 120% in 1946 and 1947 just after World War II. ...

7. Two cheers for target retirement funds
(Money/Economy)

... to forget that. Investors who had money in the market in 1929 didn't get their money back for around 10 years – assuming that they had courageously held on. An old rule was: Subtract your age from 100, ...

8. There's plenty to do on a rainy day down the shore
(Life/Style)

... and loudest music instrument in the world. Built between 1929 and 1932 by the Midmer-Losh Organ Company of Merrick, N.Y., it was designed by Atlantic County State Senator Emerson L. Richards, who specified ...

9. Obama's timid two-dimensional approach to banking reform won't work
(Money/Economy)

... would continue with institutions whose size is capped. The banks'self-serving, profit-driven argument sounds like the cries of alarm when Congress, reacting to the Crash of 1929, split off commercial ...

10. Lynn Redgrave: Creature of the theater
(Entertainment/Movies)

... Gershwin musical comedy "Strike Up the Band" at New York City Center, Redgrave wittily portrayed a circa 1929 Margaret Dumont-style dowager. In the middle of the second act, suddenly there's Redgrave singing ...

11. More about money
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... dollars to pay for the dept caused by World War 1 and the 1929 stock market crash. It was also used to jump start the country and put people back to work. In 1933 the international bankers came to the ...

12. Deserving films that never won Oscars
(Entertainment/Movies)

... Again, two. "Rules of the Game" and "Citizen Kane." Some worthy films of the past were overlooked because they happened to arrive before the Academy began giving out awards, in 1929. (Like Charlie Chaplin's ...

13. Budget expert gives legislators grim review of New Jersey's fiscal problems
(N.J./State)

... School costs are another area where the assembly and Senate could come together. We have to realize this is the worst economic time since 1929.'' Greenwald said he wants to continue to obtain insight ...

14. A ringing defense of Wall Street’s American bankers
(Money/Economy)

... will discover if you read John Kenneth Galbraith's book, "The Great Crash." In 1929, the year of the crash, Wiggin received $275,000 in compensation from Chase Bank, of which he was variously chairman ...

15. New Jersey bids good riddance to the 2000s
(N.J./State)

... by The Depression was especially ugly for New Jersey. "The Great Depression struck hard in New Jersey,'' he said. "The average per capita income fell from $839 in 1929 to $479 in 1932 and $433 in 1933. ...

16. The argument for bringing back the expiring estate tax
(Opinion/Commentary)

... market crash of 1929. With so much wealth in so few hands, our economy has begun to operate more like a casino, with high-risk speculation fueling boom-and-bust cycles that have wrecked communities ...

17. New Jersey high schools will have Muriel Siebert to thank for financial education
(Money/Economy)

...  Avoid technology stocks. Keep out-the stock market crashed in 1929, and it can do it again. Warren Boroson will answer financial questions sent to WGBoroson@gmail.com.  ...

18. Once again, N.J.'s gubernatorial campaign is stuck in the mud
(Opinion/Commentary)

... the devastating effects of the worst recession since 1929's Black Friday. New Jersey is not the worst basket case in the country. Christie has also avoided offering much in the way of details about ...