Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus ran the story which J. P. McEvoy energized with Broadway chatter in his novel Show Girl (1928). And thus runs the plot of the musical show which Producer Ziegfeld, as Writer McEvoy had planned, has energized with girls, Gershwin tunes, and spillings from the largest cornucopia of talent in the girl-show business...
Just when Tammany Hall was bracing itself for a New York City-wide election this fall, a bloody body was last week plunked down upon its political doorstep. Frank Marlow, murdered Broadway gambler and racketeer, had hardly been settled in his coffin before a so-called Better City Government League nominated one-time (1918-25) Tammany Mayor John Francis ("Red Mike") Hylan to run as an independent candidate against Tammany Mayor James John Walker. The Hylan war-cry: Stamp out crime, vice, corruption...
...Many a New York voter had begun to forget the Rothstein murder when the Marlow murder occurred. Grover Aloysius Whalen, the fastidious police chief who was inducted to quiet the Rothstein uproar, squared his handsomely tailored shoulders, sat up late seeking clues. His detectives swarmed spectacularly through the Broadway brightlight district making raids, seeking witnesses. Other detectives chased a trail leading to Boston. Said the Commissioner: "Actions speak louder than words...
...having lunched, he goes motoring (35 m. p. h. minimum speed). Sometimes he goes as far as Bridgeport, to see his good friend, Mrs. Ira Warner. Returning he telephones No. 26 Broadway, transacts business, for he has not completely retired from oil. At 7:30, formally dressed, he sits down to dinner. Over the cloth he may tell a tale or two and his audience knows when to laugh. After dinner there is his favorite game, "Numerica." He plays it without cards or money. In bed by 11, John D. wills himself to sleep almost instantly...
...said Captain Rowland H. Macy, onetime whaling skipper, then a storekeeper, to his daughter. Thirty-two years later the R. H. Macy & Co. store was located on the corner (34th and Broadway) which the Captain had pointed out. Last week Macy's climaxed more than 70 years of steady growth with the purchase of L. Bamberger & Co., potent Newark department store. Macy's 1928 sales* were $90,251,396; Bamberger's were $35,001,214. The 1929 sales of the two stores are expected to reach $140,000,000. The 1928 net income of the combination was approximately...