Word: 53rd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Veiled Prophet In St. Louis crowds stamped their feet to keep warm waiting for the 53rd appearance of the Veiled Prophet. Thoughtfully he emerged 15 min. ahead of time from the fastness of "Khorassan.'' a dingy car barn on Ranken Avenue. With him came forth 19 floats depicting scenes from the life of Washington, towed by caparisoned horses along the street car tracks...
Rare are sewer accidents like John Debo's. In 1929 in Manhattan an 8-year-old boy, playing carelessly about subway construction in East 53rd Street, tumbled into a sewer flowing to the East River three blocks away. Hearing the alarm, members of the Red Wing Boat Club, famed for its corpse recoveries, scurried to the sewer outlet at 49th Street, yanked the blubbering moppet out alive as he was being poured into the river...
...York City between 48th and 53rd Streets...
...district Gardiner Withrow was disposing of Edward Everts Browne, a Congressman since 1913. Renominated for the 19th time in the Racine district was Congressman Henry Allen Cooper, 80, white-bearded, upstanding No. 1 long-service man of the House.? Representative Cooper entered the House in 1893 (53rd Congress). His anti-War stand caused his defeat for the 66th Congress (1919-21). He was re-elected in 1920. Total service: 35 years.? Representative Cooper made a memorable impression upon all delegates at the G. O. P. Repub- lican National Convention at Cleveland in 1924 when, a La Follette supporter...
Once each year prime lawyers of the land are drawn together by the meeting of the American Bar Association, their profession's most august and potent national organization. Last week the A. B. A. held its 53rd annual convention in Chicago. Of its 29,386 members,* 2,415 crowded into the Stevens Hotel ballroom, jostled about among friends in lobbies, listened to many a long speech. Sad-eyed Henry Upson Sims of Birmingham, Ala., A. B. A. president, welcomed delegates with assurances that constitutional liberty was still safe in the land, that "visions of social strife are but phantasmagoria...