Word: 56th
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Female modern apartment denizens, as crowded for space as birds in a cage, viewed with delight a new style of furniture brought forth last week by artists at the Art Centre, 56th St., Manhattan. Artists, although all the word knows them to be useless, sometimes have fantastically practical ideas...
...abode of the Chicago Civic Opera Company and create a midWest music Mecca. Perhaps Mr. Insull's plan is a lusty answer to the Babylo-American style skyscraper which Otto Hermann Kahn is now erecting for the Metropolitan Opera among the tenements and speakeasies which creep up to 56th and 57th Streets at 8th and 9th Avenues, in Manhattan...
...wings, so the course of events leading up to last week's vote in the Metropolitan board of directors was not without conflict and a tinge of acrimony. Last December Otto Hermann Kahn, chairman of the board and largest stockholder, bought the city block bounded by 56th and 57th Sts. and by 8th and 9th Aves. He did this quietly, anonymously, and proceeded to bring about the Metropolitan's vote of removal. There is a conservative faction in the producing company, stockholders with blood of deepest indigo and an inbred suspicion of change. To control this element...
Foreign Censorship. The 56th birthday of King Vittorio Emanuele was celebrated at a reception tendered him by the Government and Premier Mussolini at the Capital. Foreign newspapermen were barred even from attendance at this function by the adroit form in which the official invitos were cast. It was specifically required that every male guest appear in uniform, and since even those foreign correspondents in Rome who are military men had left their uniforms at home, cables reported that all of them were refused admittance.† For good measure, numerous Italians who had outgrown their military trappings or allowed them...
Died. Jefferson Monroe Levy, 72, politician, owner of Monticello, President Jefferson's home; in Manhattan, of heart disease. He represented New York City in the 56th, 62nd and 63rd Congresses, inherited Monticello from his uncle Uriah P. Levy who had bought it from the Rev. James C. Barclay who had purchased it from Mrs. Randolph, Mr. Jefferson's daughter. He was a brother of Mitchell A. C. Levy, president of many Hebrew organizations...