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Defendants Moskowitz and Rudikoff were charged with criminal libel. Denied was a motion to bring similar charges against the Manhattan & Bronx Laundry Owners' Association as distributors of the poster...
...Frank Frisch of the world's champion St. Louis Cardinals, and Shortstop Walter ("Rabbit") Maranville of the Boston Braves, docked at San Francisco. They had played 17 games in Japan, won them all, been seen by 500,000 people. Last week, when he reached his home in The Bronx, where his mother often frys eels for him and other Yankees, First Baseman Gehrig told about the trip: "The enthusiasm of the Japanese just about borders on the fanatical. . . . Never had I seen anything like it even in our biggest championship years at the Stadium. The six games in Tokyo...
Besides John Mulgrew, Free State authorities were worried about another U. S. importation last week. Government speakers had had to stand a barrage of interruptions from a device known as "the rubber razzberry," an inexpensive instrument of defamation popular with Hollywood comedians and Bronx hoodlums. Deplored the Dublin Irish Press...
Died. Khartoum, 28, gluttonous, misanthropic 7,000-lb. elephant, largest in captivity; of heart disease after prolonged overfeeding and lethargic life; in New York Zoological Park, The Bronx...
...universities students with automobiles often tie strips of inner tubing to the exhausts, which when the motor is suddenly speeded causes them to emit a familiar noise known as "the bird," "corporal's salute," or "Bronx cheer.'' In Mexico City chauffeurs devised a code of horn signals, added this U. S. innovation. One chauffeur was stopped by a policeman named Tomas Gonzalez, sharply reprimanded for a traffic violation. As the chauffeur drove away he stepped on the accelerator, made his horn issue a loud, vulgar noise. Tomas Gonzalez jumped on the car's running board, beat...