Word: staten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Detective methods had to be used to keep track of the four patients, all seamen. The detecting work was done by Dr. John F. Mahoney, who retired last week as medical director of the Venereal Disease Research Laboratory, U.S. Marine Hospital, Staten Island, N.Y., Dr. Richard C. Arnold, his successor, and Serologist Ad Harris. For the first few months after treatment, the seamen had been kept ashore, and on call. But for almost two years of wartime service they were all over the bounding main and in many a disease-ridden liberty port...
...these, Jasper Danckeart by name, set out from Staten Island on a bright morning in 1679. He traveled by birchbark canoc to the hamlet of Elizabethtown, where he disembarked and set out across country towards the warmer climes of the southwest. But let him tell his tale...
Congressman James J. Murphy, Staten Island Democrat, lolled expansively in a plush, flower-filled hotel suite far from home-in Madrid, of all places. Congressman Murphy beamed and waved a 10-in. cigar: "Wonderful people, these Spaniards. I am here absolutely on my own. I'm paying my own bills. But I just happened to mention to one of these marquises that for sightseeing I missed my own car. In an hour a magnificent car was at my disposal. Of course, I volunteered to pay for the gas, but the marquis just smiled as though he thought...
...appointment was none of his business ("An unseemly bumble," cried the New York Herald Tribune), he backed down. But Hovde withdrew his name from the pot. So, a short time later, rdid another promising candidate, Walter Consuelo Langsam, president of 1,200-student Wagner Memorial Lutheran College on Staten Island. On reflection, he decided to stay where he was. The board, which didn't care much for Miss Kiely, started its search all over again...
Suburbia. Their first house was on Staten Island, where they met Edwin Markham and formed a friendship that endured until Markham's death. Muñoz' translation of The Man with the Hoe is still regarded as the authoritative Spanish version...