Word: borough
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loose federation of anti-Semitic societies, with an estimated 100,000 members. Some of these Christians (like the German-American Bund, the Christian Mobilizers), have actually been tut-tutted by Father Coughlin.* Last week the Brooklyn Church and Mission Federation, representing nearly all the Protestants in that strongly Coughlinite borough, sounded off against the Christian Front in no tut-tutting terms...
...Bronx, sprawling northern borough of New York City, live a great many Jewish people of all shapes and sizes. Two who were about the same shape and size lived in the same apartment building at No. 250 East 178th Street. If you did not know them well, you might easily have confused Philip Orlovsky, onetime clothing workers union official (now in the textile-shrinking business), and Irving (Isadore) Penn, 42, royalties manager for G. Schirmer, Inc., music publishers. A jolly homebody with no interest outside of his family (wife & two children), music publishing...
...have a good legal case and have even recovered back rent paid in excess of the law. More often the strike is completely illegal, but that does not make the landlords much happier. Last month when 83 police smashed through a strikers' barricade in Stepney, East End London borough, and evicted five families, Tenant Defence detachments promptly reinstated them. Boasts Father John Groser, Church of England leader of the Stepney strike: "Many landlords have watched the straws in the wind and capitulated to just demands. Those who refuse, we are forced to fight-and we haven't lost...
...teachers, shut night schools, pare many another expense. Reason: Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia had cut the board's budget $3,000,000, and the State Legislature had cut another $5,300,000. As parents and teachers indignantly protested against "wrecking" of their school system, Manhattan's Borough President Stanley M. Isaacs dramatically demanded that the city's top school officials take a voluntary salary reduction of 5% to 10%, as had other city officials, including Mayor LaGuardia ($22,500), Park Commissioner Robert Moses ($12,150) , Police Commissioner Lewis Valentine ($11,250). The school officials as dramatically rejected...
...motor transport and went abroad to serve nearly a year in France. In 1920 he returned to politics, beat out Abraham Kaplan for Tammany leadership of his district. The next year he braved Boss Murphy's wrath to run against the organization's candidate for Borough President. He lost narrowly but thereafter was a power to be reckoned with...