Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week President Hoover wrote curtly to U. S. District Attorney William A. Degroot of Brooklyn, N. Y.: "You are hereby removed from office . . . effective immediately." Cause: inefficiency...
Strong Willie Rohrer of Brooklyn was the most popular because they knew him. but strong Al Manger of Baltimore was the hero because he broke three records. After he had done so, the women (there were eight present) purred "Wunderbar, wunderschön"?and wished Al's nose were not big like his muscles. Big muscles, by that time, had grown commonplace...
...October. A dozen airplane manufacturers are enlisted in it already. U. S. entrants are Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co. of Buffalo, Schroeder-Wentworth Associates of Glencoe, Ill., Charles Ward Hall Inc. of Buffalo, J. S. McDonnell Jr. & Associates of Milwaukee, Heraclio Alfaro of Cleveland, and Brunner-Winkle Aircraft Corp. of Brooklyn. If they do not win the $100,000 first prize, they may get one of five $10,000 "safety" prizes...
...youngest of big-university presidents was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., of a mother who was graduated at Mt. Holyoke and a father who is now President of Berea College (Kentucky). Education has be come a Hutchins family tradition. The Youngest President's brother, Francis, 26, is head of Yale-in-China; another brother, William, teaches at the Westminster School, Simsbury, Conn...
...Mary Ware Dennett, 53, a grandmother, sat in a Brooklyn court last week studying the faces of twelve Brooklyn men, middle-aged and elderly, who in turn eyed her. They were a Federal Jury sitting to decide whether she had committed a criminal obscenity by sending through the mails a 24-page pamphlet she had written, entitled The Sex Side of Life. Beside Mrs. Dennett sat her 28-year-old son Carleton (with his wife) and her younger son Devon, aged 24. Near her sat Attorney Morris L. Ernst and Dr. R. L. Dickinson of the N. Y. Academy...