Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thomas Frothingham Mason '30 of Brooklyn, New York was elected Captain of the University track team at the meeting held yesterday in Notman's Studio for the taking of the squad picture...
...Brooklyn, last week, the telephone rang in the home of William Banks. He awoke, answered it. It was the wrong number. Had the telephone not rung, he, his wife and their five children would have died. They were all partly overcome by escaping gas. Banks opened windows, telephoned police, thanked inept telephone operators...
...Hygiene Association, presided. Dr. Robert Latou Dickinson of the New York Academy of Medicine, energetic in maternal health work, resolved that some permanent agency be formed to study and act on sex education, sex literature. The mass meeting approved unanimously, except for Canon William Sheafe Chase of Christ Church, Brooklyn. He, who had abetted the conviction of Mrs. Dennett, sat in the gallery silent, watchful, preparing to continue his denunciation in debate and lecture...
James Augustine Farrell of Brooklyn, from common seaman to President of U. S. Steel Corp., was last week the first recipient of the new Elbert H. Gary Memorial medal of the American Iron & Steel Institute, for "distinguished achievement...
...years Publisher Paul Block has been expanding his business, buying a newspaper here, a newspaper there. Today he owns the Newark Star-Eagle, the Brooklyn Standard-Union, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and two other dailies. All are profitmakers...