In a cold drizzle, on a blocked-off avenue near the big armory in Jersey City one evening last week John Serpico, president of International Fireworks Co., started setting off bombs as fast as he could light them. Slowly a crowd gathered, staring at the huge street banners proclaiming: TIME TO STRIKE AGAINST THE RED MENACE. Children thought it was the Fourth. Around the armory a regiment of Jersey City policemen barked: "Right inside, folks, right inside."
The rally, ostensibly sponsored by the local Chamber of Commerce to demonstrate the city's faith in Mayor...
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