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...City of New York was organized in 1923 under the leadership of Harry Collins Brown, longtime editor of Valentine's Manual, with the enthusiastic support of Banker James Speyer, Supreme Court Justice Phoenix Ingraham. For several years it occupied the old wooden Gracie Mansion on the East River, between 88th & 89th Streets, onetime country place of Clipper Ship Owner Archibald Gracie. A modern fireproof building was imperative. The city donated land, a building fund was raised, an architectural competition was held. The competition was won by dapper little Joseph Henry Freedlander, an architect high in Tammany favor, who designed...
...Alabama Polytechnic Institute Professor Fred Allison early last year recognized eka-cesium, the 80th element in the Periodic Table (TIME, Feb. 17, 1930). Last week he had eka-iodine, the 88th and last unknown element...
Sirs: Two recent statements in your columns lead me to write you. One is in your article on the resignation of Judge Taft "Outstanding decisions: one." In Taylor v. Railroad, in the 88th Federal, Judge Taft's opinion established the right of the taxpayers to resort to the courts for protection against tax discrimination; his decision in U. S. v. Addystone Pipe Co. is one of the most frequently cited opinions dealing with the rights of corporations under anti-trust laws; his decision in the Burlington railroad case established the right of the Interstate Commerce Commission to regulate rates...
Associate Justice Holmes, deep-lined but erect in his 88th year, eldest of the nine...
Huge on the front page of the New York Evening Journal (Hearst), last week, was a faithful photograph of John Davison Rockefeller. Big was the caption above: 88TH BIRTHDAY PARTY, and below: "John D. Rockefeller is celebrating his eighty-eighth birthday a day ahead of time." The Journal, unlike Mr. Rockefeller, was a year behind time. As every one knows, Mr. Rockefeller was 89 on July 8. But the New York Sun jumped the gun a year and said that Mr. Rockefeller...