Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Newell Dwight Hillis resigned from the pastorate of Plymouth Congregational Church, Brooklyn...
...chiropractor, one Ernest G. Meyer, called to see a child suffering with diphtheria. Failing to make a proper diagnosis, he treated the condition by manipulations of the spine. Last week a jury in the Brooklyn Supreme Court found him guilty of manslaughter, on account of "culpable negligence," for which the maximum penalty is imprisonment for from ten to twenty years...
FREDERICK E. CRANE, of Brooklyn, Associate Justice of the New York Court of Appeals...
...Born in Brooklyn, William Beebe was educated at Columbia University. He has for many years been Honorary Curator of Ornithology of the New York Zoölogical Society. As you doubtless know, he is Director of the British Guiana Zoological Station, and here he spends a part of each year, collecting specimens, examining them, preparing his elaborate scientific data. But he has not confined his activities to the jungle; he has also traveled extensively in Asia, South America, Mexico...
...years ago in a Philadelphia rooming house with a copy of his song in his hand; on it was pencilled: "It's hard to grow old alone." Despite the $75,000 royalties, over which their children are still fighting, Mrs. Danks died in reduced circumstances in a Brooklyn rooming house...