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...Governor Lehman, Mr. Moses picked up where he had left off in his $10,000-a-year job as New York City Park Commissioner, his nothing-a-year job as a member of the city's Triborough Bridge Authority. The bridge, which will connect Manhattan, Queens and The Bronx in the vicinity of Hell Gate, is being built with $42,000,000 of PWA funds...
...Henry Breckinridge, Lindbergh friend and lawyer, helped dissipate the defense's insinuations that "Jafsie" Condon was criminally embroiled in the case when he testified that that old Bronx schoolteacher had been opposed from the start to giving ransom without first seeing the child...
...said that honors between prosecution and defense were even, for the prosecution had produced a half-dozen damaging surprises and the defense had not had its innings. But in the matter of the four women and eight men picked to judge the guilt or innocence of the young Bronx carpenter both sides appeared to be satisfied...
...opened for the State of New Jersey. He traced the old ' story from the night of March 1, 1932, when Baby Lindbergh was snatched from his crib, to May 12, 1932, when his body was found. Old, too, was the story of Hauptmann's arrest in The Bronx, of his possession of $13,750 worth of the ransom money, of the attempt to identify him with the ladder found on the Lindbergh premises the night of the crime. For months newspapers had trumpeted the fact that lumber in the ladder came from a Bronx lumber yard where Hauptmann...
...your Hitler looks Jewish," observed the onetime Bronx choir singer to a German customs guard who was going through her baggage. "I don't think Hitler is a German anyway. His type is certainly not Teutonic-so what's the idea of his treating the Jews the way he does...