Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hayes has returned to the U. S. After a month's rest, he will tour from Coast to Coast, starting in Brooklyn...
Recently, 31 Italians (male) were captured on Long Island, were charged with entering the country illegally. They were taken to Ellis Island on a deportation order, but the Government changed its mind. Handcuffed together, they were taken to a jail in Brooklyn and held in $10,000 bail each. The usual bail is $500. They and the two men charged with smuggling them in are to be prosecuted under the Immigration Act and the Passport Act. These provide, in case of conviction, for an extreme penalty of 20 years in jail, $10,000 fine and deportation when the sentence...
...said nothing, but . . . The rumor started, the rumor spread, the rumor became confident prediction that Dr. Fosdick would cease to grace the lower Fifth Avenue Presbyterian pulpit. Probably, it was said, he would undertake, every Sunday, to go from Union Theological Seminary (upper Manhattan) to the Plymouth Congregational Church, Brooklyn, and thus be come successor to Henry Ward Beecher, Lyman Abbott, Newell Dwight Hillis (TIME, Apr. 21). Said Dr. Fosdick by telegram: ". . . WILL MAKE NO STATEMENT UNTIL OFFICIALLY APPROACHED BY AUTHORIZED COMMITTEE OF NEW YORK PRESBYTERY...
Daniel A. Tobin, of Brooklyn, was elected Supreme Director to succeed William P. Larkin, Manhattanite...
Married. Lillian Scharman, No. 4 on U. S. ranking tennis list for women (1923), to one William Van Anden Hester Jr., of Brooklyn; in Paris...