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...enthralled local Chamber of Commerce, Congressman Sol Bloom, member of the House Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions, recommended that Brooklyn hold a world's fair and permanent international exposition in 1932 in honor of the 200th anniversary of the birth of George Washington. He proposed the use of 2,200 acres of undeveloped park land on Jamaica Bay, the erection of buildings with 5,000,000 square feet of floor space for exhibits by the U. S. and 46 foreign governments, a stadium to hold 200,000 people, parking space for 100,000 automobiles, the highest tower...
...Lane Miller, pastor of the Hanson Place Methodist Episcopal Church (Brooklyn), viewed the incident as a challenge to Christians of the U. S. to consider "how their own country is drifting...
Monsignor John L. Belford, rector of the Roman Catholic Church of the Nativity (Brooklyn) said: "I think we should keep the statue of Buddha out of the park by all means...
...Brooklyn, one Rachael Galpern, 14, was taking a hot soap-bath before going to a party. Hearing a slight scratching in the ceiling above her, she raised her eyes in time to see a pointed grey face peer at her from a hole in the plaster. The hole widened, the thin mortar crumbled, and an enormous black rat fell into the water with her, splashed about, caressed her with its clammy paws and insolently ogled her. Rachael screamed; Mrs. Galpern rushed in and killed the rat with a poker. That evening at the party when a little boy exclaimed...
...Brooklyn, a fish peddler (Giacomo Puleo) and a laundry-wagon driver (William Levine) left their horses uncovered in a storm. Haled to court they were sent to stand coatless, hatless, for 15 minutes in the winter rain. Magistrate Golden said: "Now you know what it feels like...