Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fish left the New York Legislature to lead a company of Colored Infantry to the Battle of Champagne. He returned with a croix de guerre; went into the insurance business; married Grace, daughter of Alfred Chapin, former Democratic mayor of Brooklyn; was elected to Congress. He it was who introduced the bill into Congress to honor " The Unknown Soldier...
...Mayor Hylan of New York stepped in with an objection. The City of New York owns Pier 86, which the Shipping Board wanted for the Leviathan (TiME, May 5). However, in awarding the contract for the reconditioning of the President Buchanan, the Shipping Board trod on the toes of Brooklyn by awarding the contract to the Newport News Shipbuilding Company instead of to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, which made the lower bid. Accordingly Mayor Hylan (who lives in Brooklyn, ''Bushwick Section") announced: "If Chairman Lasker expects to get consideration around the Harbor of New York...
...Outlook, once a weekly of "generally entertaining and instructive literature," edited by Henry Ward Beecher of Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, first rose to national prominence under Lyman Abbott, who became joint editor in 1876. The late Colonel Roosevelt was for five years Contributing Editor...
President, Alexander Mackay-Smith '24 of Washington, Conn.; vice-president, James Lloyd Berrall '24 of Washington, D. C.; secretary, Ernest Frederic Knauth Jr. '24 of Brooklyn, N Y. At the same time the following officers were appointed: Manager, Trevanion Dallas Blair-Smith '24 of Englewood, N. J.; assistant manager, Dexter Selden Paine '25 of Brookline; librarian, Leicester Haydon Sherrill '26 of Philadelphia...
...polar heights of Great Neck came the Women's Club thereof, aesthetically accoutered to do their devoir. The Circle Players, the Temple Players, the East-West Players, the Players' League, the Stockbridge Stocks?these five arose from Manhattan, and girded their loins with batik and fine linen and came. Brooklyn, fair Brooklyn of the poets, sent forth the Adelphi Dramatic Association, the Brooklyn Institute Players, the Clark Street Players?mighty clans...