Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cartooning, Nelson Harding of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, twice a winner, for his sketch of Colonel Lindbergh's plane casting a cruciform shadow over Mexico, with the title, "May his shadow never grow less...
...Brooklyn, Albert Begleite, Seymour Cohen, Bernard Silver, George Zuckerman, Philip Ausuacks ran howling down a ^treet, pursued by a black bulldog. At the corner was a synagog; knowing well that the bulldog would never dare to follow hem inside, the five screeching urchins scampered toward its door and jostled .hrough. When the bulldog reached the door, he pushed it open with his flat snub nose and dashed inside. Barking furiously and growling in the solemn gloom, he cornered the five boys and bit each on one or both legs. After that, the bulldog, still snarling, was taken to the Board...
...school, having reached the eighth grade. Beside his mother he had a sister, two years his junior, to support. He earned $15 per week as a checker in the Fulton Fish Market. His mother covered umbrellas to help out. He checked fish for seven years, then worked in a Brooklyn pumping station...
Samuel Parkes Cadman. 63-year-old Brooklyn clergyman and dispenser of comfort by correspondence, addressing a meeting of Baptist deacons last week in Atlanta, Ga., mused wistfully: "I wish that we might have one more Protestant Mayor of New York before...
...with its two alternates is as follows: John Egger Barnett '28 of Clinton, Mo.; Henry Thomas Dolan '28 of Scranton, Pa.; James Latimer McLane ocC. of Garrison, Md.; John Douglas Merriam '28 of Newton, N. J.; Nathan Marsh Pusey '28 of Council Bluffs, la.; Laurence James Rittenband '29 of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Russell Thornley Sharpe '28 of East Greenwich, R. I.; Richard Thomas Sherman '28 of Algona, Ia.; Harold Strauss '28 of New York City; Edward Carl Wilkins '28 of Springfield, Mass. The two alternates are: George Barry Bingham '28 of Glenview, Ky., and Carl Harmon Hartwig '28 of Lawrence...