Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...From a Brooklyn pier one day last week steamed away the S. S. Coamo, Porto Rico-bound. Aboard her were eleven men who composed a commission going to Santo Domingo to establish a budget system in that little republic.* Chief Budgetman was Charles Gates Dawes, first U. S. Budget Director (1921-22). To limit expenses, most of the Commissioners paid their own bills. Santo Domingo will be billed only $10,000 for the job, which will require from three to six weeks. No Commissioner took a golf club, fishing tackle or a valet. Work, not play, was ahead of them...
...peddled shoe polish which his father made over the family stove. Later, he sponged pants, coats in a Manhattan tailoring shop. Still later he cut out cloak and suit patterns for $17 a week. Twenty-five years ago, when feature pictures were 500 feet long, Cineman Fox opened, in Brooklyn, his first theatre. Nobody came to see the show, so finally he hired sleight-of-hand artists to do tricks in the lobby and attract a crowd. There followed many a theatre in Brooklyn, Manhattan, the Bronx, and eventual expansion into one of the world's most colossal enterprises ruled...
...Williamsburg Savings Bank is the tallest building in Brooklyn, N. Y. Its deposits total $225,000,000. Passers-by were puzzled, last week, to see, high on the outer wall, a sculptured grotesque of a peterman (professional argot for bank- robber) with his dark lantern. Why should a bank thus honor its immemorial enemy? Further along was the moral answer, an other image of the peterman - behind the bars
...grandfather of the new Metropolitan head served on the staff of one of Napoleon's generals. The father, also an army man, sent Frederick Ecker to a Brooklyn Sunday school of which Joseph Fairchild Knapp, founder of the Metropolitan, was superintendent. At the age of 16, Mr. Ecker got his first Metropolitan job. He distributed mail through the office, worked from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m., received $4 a week. As his present salary is almost $4,000 a week (he is said to receive $200,000 a year), his advancement has been very considerable...
Gifford Pinchot, onetime Governor of Pennsylvania, sailed last week from Brooklyn in his schooner, the Mary Pinchot, bound for the Caribbean, Galapagos, Tahiti. With him were his wife and son, Gifford Jr. An hour after he sailed he had to return. Reasons: ammonia fumes were escaping from a pipe in the refrigerating system, the telegraph system between the captain's cabin and the engine room was out of order. Three days later he sailed again. No mishaps interfered...