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Only one of New York City's five boroughs on the U. S. mainland is The Bronx. Between it and Manhattan Island flows the sludgy little Harlem River. Between it and Queens on Long Island churns Hell Gate, connecting East River with Long Island Sound.* Until last week there was no way, except for a feeble ferry, for motorists on the mainland to reach Long Island without passing through Manhattan. This traffic gap was then closed by the ceremonious opening of a $60,300,000 collection of viaducts and spans called the Triborough Bridge...
After grace and handshakings President Gannon entered on his duties. With 7,300 students, Fordham has outgrown its grassy 75-acre campus in The Bronx, spilled over into four floors of Manhattan's Woolworth Building. Promptly the new president announced that sprawling Fordham had finished its era of expansion, would concentrate on extracurricular activities to enrich campus life, bring students and faculty closer together. Said he: "Having a big registration is nothing to boast about. We won't add a single student to the rolls during the next six years...
...World-Telegram's editorial page one day last week appeared an open indictment of President Roosevelt for squaring "personal political obligations by saddling the Federal Bench with unknowns" nominated by Tammany and The Bronx's Boss Edward J. Flynn. The Republicans "earned a cheer for having accepted the principle of social security." James A. Farley was castigated for making "a spoilsman's happy hunting ground of the Postal Department," which in turn was felicitated in an adjoining column for "a swell job on its bonus bond deliveries." All of which indicated that in his 36 years...
Recited Author Gelett ("Purple Cow") Burgess to the Gourmet Society at a dinner in The Bronx...
Charles Rudy and Henry Kreis were getting together on a Treasury Department commission of $7,500 each for collaboration on "a harmonious pair of sculptures" for the façade of The Bronx Post Office in New York City. Sculptors Rudy & Kreis were winners in an open competition in which Sculptors Paul Manship, Edward McCartan and Maurice Sterne judged some 400 models...