Word: 54th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died, Oscar Odd ("O. O.") Mclntyre, widest-read U. S. columnist (New York Day by Day, in 508 papers); four days before his 54th birthday, which would also have been his 30th wedding anniversary; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Successively hotel clerk, reporter, editor, press agent, free-lance columnist. O. O. Mclntyre wrote about Manhattan for village folk-for the people of Gallipolis, Ohio, his home town, among others-in fustian prose, sprinkled with fictional references to the great, first-hand description of accidents, nostalgic contrast of city and village. Sickly for years, he prowled Manhattan for material...
Organized rifle shooting here want into its 54th year last night, when it new and old members of the Rise Club assembled at Kirkland House for the organization meeting...
Edna Bandler is the white-haired intense-eyed widow of a rich diamond merchant. Until two years ago she lived in a mansion, full of gilt and marble, which John D. Rockefeller built years ago in West 54th Street for his son John D. Jr. She now dwells, and conducts prophetic services for a small band of followers in a lushly-furnished duplex studio in West 57th Street, a neighborhood in which nourish many swamis and faith-healers...
...West 54th Street town house of the late John D. Rockefeller is one of the few remaining private residences in mid-Manhattan with a scrap of lawn. Mr. Rockefeller had not seen it for years, however, and last week came news that it and his son's place next door would soon be torn down. The sites had been given to the Museum of Modern Art for a fine new building to be completed...
Slow, almost tortuous, has been the evolution of justice in the U. S. which the 54th Attorney General now recounts in a readable book entitled Federal Justice published currently.* Collaborator with Homer Stille Cummings in the presentation of the story of the Department of Justice and the Attorneys General, which mirrors the nation's growth, was a smart special assistant named Carl McFarland. Attesting the thoroughness of Justice Department researchers are 1,529 references in the 558 pages...