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...largest Negro city in the world is concentrated on the eastern upper tip of Manhattan Island. But Harlem is by no means exclusively a Lincoln-loving land. That is, its inhabitants have learned, like their Jewish neighbors in the nearby Bronx, to vote wlth the Irish democrats of Tammany Hall; to admire Democratic Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith...
While in the U. S., Trotsky lived for nearly three months at No. 1522 Vyse Ave., the Bronx, New York City. With him were his wife (sister of Lev Borisovitch Kamenev) and his two small sons. He is said to have eked out a precarious livelihood on $15 a week, which he got for writing brilliant revolutionary articles in the Novy Mir, New York Russian language newspaper. It is possible, however, that Trotsky earned much more, for his coming was advertised widely among the radicals, who organized many a reception for him and, he, brilliant as always, made many...
When the 1917 revolution broke out, he abandoned the Bronx and embarked for Russia. The British imprisoned him at Halifax, but released him later, and he made his way without further molestation to his native land, where he joined Lenin. In September, 1917, he was elected President of the Petrograd (Leningrad) Soviet; and the next year, as the first Commissar for Foreign Affairs, he conducted the peace negotiations for the Russians at Brest-Litovsk. He refused to sign the treaty that the Germans drew up, resigned and became Commissar for War, in whiqh capacity he organized the Red Army...
...with pink cheeks and big ears cringed before nine women who snarled at him, at bay in a Bronx (New York City) police station last week. His name was Edward Koch and he had faked all nine out of jewelry or cash by merely telling them that he was a doctor come to their apartments to give them a physical examination. Like Mrs. Jean Sagerman (TIME, Oct. 24) all had submitted and been robbed while taking baths by his orders...
...Bronx (New York City borough) lives a Mrs. Jean Sagerman, furrier's young wife. To her apartment last week came a man. Mrs. Sagerman listened to the man explain that he was a doctor and that her husband had sent him to give her a physical examination. She submitted to it. Said the man: "Your circulation is very poor. I'm afraid you'll have to take an extra hot bath before I can make a thoroughly satisfactory examination." Mrs. Sagerman hid her $1,000 engagement ring and $19.40 under a pillow. When she came from...