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...huge incoherent mass of subjects which the great city presents. Lower Manhattan at dawn, Scarsdalers waiting herd-like for the 8.52; a homeless drunk sprawled on the sidewalk, semi-human sardines jammed into the subway; Mrs. $25,000-a-year-executive smugly viewing the man-made greenness of the Bronx River Parkway; Miss $15-a-week dictation sponge engulfing a hectic ham-on-rye; sunshine on the glories of Park Avenue; the same sunshine on the littered, crowded alloys of Mike Gold's 606 playground (the East Side); Fifth Avenue jammed with taxis, limousines and fur-clad ladies with good...
...last member of the Court, who should be the least significant in point of seniority, is far from it. In 1913 in Manhattan and The Bronx, the Fusion candidate for the Supreme Court of New York was an able young lawyer named Benjamin Nathan Cardozo. Early returns showed him running behind his ticket and he went to bed believing himself beaten. He awoke in the morning to find that: "My name led all the rest when the returns from The Bronx came in. Our good Italian citizens took my name for one of their...
...sidetrack the religious issue by declaring that if Gloria remained in her custody, she would be reared a Catholic, probably sent to a Catholic boarding school. Mrs. Vanderbilt promptly offered more personal care. She said she would send Gloria to study daytimes at a Catholic convent in The Bronx. "I want to place her with me," said the young mother, "and enjoy her after her study hours...
Earliest of the Administration's housing programs was the set-up whereby PWA would advance money to private limited dividend corporations to erect model housing communities. Results have been almost grotesque. Two projects are under way in New York City, one in The Bronx called Hillside, one in Queens called Boulevard Gardens...
Kidnapping case in a class by itself is that of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. Credit for the capture of Bruno Richard Hauptmann in that case, however, goes not to the Department of Justice but to the New York City Police Department. Fortnight ago the affairs of the onetime Bronx carpenter turned an important corner when extradition papers were signed by New York's Governor Lehman turning him over to New Jersey...