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...Bronx Express" by Ossip Dinow and Owen Davis will be the fall production of the Harvard and Radcliffe Menorah Societies to be given on Wednesday, December 14, and Thursday, December 15, in the Agassiz Theatre at Radcliffe...
...Bronx Express" is a comedy of New York life, describing the conflict between conservative parents and children growing up under the conditions of modern life. It was first produced in Germany and then a few years ago was produced in New York with Richard Schildkrant taking the leading role...
Jersey City, Newark, Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Mineola, again Manhattan, Poughkeepsie and finally Hyde Park, to vote and wait for returns was the circuit on which Franklin Delano Roosevelt wound up his four-month campaign last week. In each he smiled his ear-to-ear smile, waved his long arms, made brief inconsequential speeches that added no last-minute proposition to the issues. Frank Hague, New Jersey's boss, proudly exhibited the candidate to thundering thousands. Thirty-five hundred Republicans-for-Roosevelt heard him, along with Owen D. Young, from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House...
Last week Reconstruction Finance Corp. announced its first loan for slum-eradication. To Hillside Housing Corp. in New York's Bronx went $3,957,000. Pending was a similar loan of $800,000 to a Brooklyn group. Since New York is so far the only State with laws and a commission to regulate rents, profits, capital structures, interest charges and methods of operation of housing corporations, it alone is eligible for R. F. C. housing help...
Unperturbed by a protest brought before the R. F. C. by the Board of Estimate and New York realtors, many of whose boxlike Bronx apartment houses are tenantless, Mr. Straus, Architect Stein and Andrew Eken announced: "The granting of the loan . . . marks, we hope and believe, a milestone in better housing for people of limited means. Governmental encouragement of such work will provide immediate employment for more than 1,000 men on the Hillside housing operation. . . . Further similar action on the part of Reconstruction Finance Corp. will provide the greatest possible stimulus to employment, as well as create a lasting...