Word: boardwalkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some 5,000 residents and Easter visitors watched Tommy Adair and 149 other less well-bred dogs straggle crookedly down the resort city's wide boardwalk. An American Legion band blared martially while the dogs tugged or were tugged by small owners who had entered them in Ocean City's second annual Mutt Show. Proudly heading the line ambled an ingratiating, yellowish mongrel named Hobo Ocean City who makes the boardwalk his year-round home. Barred from competition because he was champion Mutt last year, he was chosen host this year...
...Congregational-Christian Church and the Y.M.C.A. have passed resolutions to the Commission's taste. Last month he Methodist Episcopal convention in Atlantic City (TIME, May 16; June 6) "focused the matter more sharply. Nearly all the bishops stayed at the Hotel Dennis on the Boardwalk. Some six blocks away at Wright's Hotel (Negro) were Negro Bishops Robert Elijah Jones (New Orleans) and Matthew Wesley Clair (Covington, Ky.). There also, and in homes of Atlantic City friends, stayed the rest of the convention's 75 Negro members. Bishops Clair and Jones attended dinners and meetings of the bishops, held...
Their quarters were better than those of most alleged murderers. The Alton (once the old cruiser Chicago) was connected with the shore by a 200 ft. boardwalk, guarded by marines. On her deck had been built a penthouse, bristling with ventilators to cool the neat single cabins within. Each prisoner occupied a room comparable to that on a small liner. The food came from the officers' mess. No third-degree examinations occurred because civilian prosecutors were barred from the Alton. Flowers and messages poured in upon Mrs. Fortescue from the island and the mainland. Her daughter Thalia, staying with friends...
...banks again became a thing to talk about there. Overnight came the startling news that 14 of the city's banks were consolidating into four major groups, that one of the two remaining banks would be included later. Invited to take part but anxious to remain independent was Boardwalk National ($2,850,000 in assets), only institution situated on the famed promenade...
...Rockaway Beach, N.Y., Ray Martin, a Negro, sold liquor under the boardwalk, wore nothing but a one-piece bathing suit of light, bright green. Police raided Ray Martin's bar, arrested Ray Martin, clapped him into jail. For 26 days Ray Martin languished in jail with no other clothing than his light, bright green bathing suit. On the 27th day he borrowed a duster, went to court, pleaded guilty, was fined...