Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in a Manhattan courtroom, Fritz Kuhn's troubles came to a climax. Day after day his dreary trial had unfolded. For two weeks the jury had listened to the story of how the U. S. looked to a man who loved his Führer and thought the Jews were everywhere. They had heard how Fritz Kuhn had been arrested, not for his beliefs, but on a charge of forgery and theft from his own Bund. They heard young Herman McCarthy, Tom Dewey's assistant, build up a long, involved case about Fritz Kuhn taking...
...Minneapolis, Minn., will remember it as the year she crocheted 117,000 feet of thread into a 10' 6" by 6' 4" tablecloth with 2,000,000 patient little stitches and won the crochet championship of the U. S. Prize: $250 in cash, a trip to Manhattan, a gold crochet hook...
Only other man who ever made such a claim was Rear-Admiral Robert Edwin Peary, who died in 1920. Both Cook and Peary were once presidents of Manhattan's famed Explorers' Club. Their portraits now hang there, side by side, although over Peary and Cook, three decades ago, exploded one of the fiercest controversies in the history of exploration...
...section of Manhattan almost exclusively populated by Jews...
...while German U-boats were ranging the Atlantic traffic lanes, a gaunt and hawklike Austrian arrived in Manhattan. He spoke no English, but his first act was to make a translated statement to the press: "I hope to please the American public and if I do I shall become a citizen of your country. I do not wish to be known as a Wagnerian conductor, as I love the operas of all nations." Month later, stepping into the Metropolitan's orchestra pit recently vacated by Arturo Toscanini and his bald, black-bearded co-worker Alfred Hertz, Artur Bodanzky shook...