Word: 108th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into North Africa centuries ago. The big New Orleans absinthe firm is L. E. Jung & Wulff Co. In 1926 Mr. Jung died worth some $250.000 and was succeeded by Mr. Wulff as president. Swank Son Frederick August Wulff is treasurer, plays crack polo and is a captain in the 108th Cavalry of Louisiana's National Guard, but the firm's "Grand Old Absinthe Man" is James Bartholomew Higgins, 78, who has been in absinthe for 63 years...
...Home: top floor of a six-story apartment house at Fifth Avenue & 108th Street-where Fashion leaves off and Negro Harlem almost begins...
...before the official opening last week, they wondered how to prevent confusion between two clumsily named Manhattan institutions-the whitish New York Hospital-Cornell Medical College Association at East 68th Street & East River, and the tawny Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center (largely endowed by Edward Stephen Harkness) at West 108th Street overlooking the North (Hudson ) River. The long formal names are necessary for legal and sentimental reasons. Nicknames suggested: East River, East Side, or Whitney Medical Centre; and North River, West Side, or Harkness Medical Centre...