Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grey day. Celebrities with stiff fingers and blue noses wish they hadn't promised to throw in the first ball. President Coolidge in a brown fedora, Mayor Walker in spats, Mayor Mackay of Philadelphia in his winter overcoat, tossed in the new white balls and in New York, Brooklyn, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Washington, Boston, Detroit, Chicago, the games began. Mostly the crowds yelled to keep warm, but in Manhattan they had another reason. Before them occurred a dramatic happening...
Under Hartford's management the spice and tea business prospered and in 1864 he organized it as the Great American Tea Co. The idea of neighborhood stores came to him. Promptly he opened such stores in scattered parts of New York and Brooklyn and by the end of the Civil War he had several doing well...
...Candidate Smith and his friends lamented an occurrence in Brooklyn. There, police were obliged to arrest Patrolman Vincent Glynn, 200-lb., 27-year-old son of Candidate Smith's sister, Mrs. Catherine Smith Glynn. It appeared that Nephew Glynn, on sick leave, had drawn his pistol in an alleged speakeasy and said: "How would you like to see what I can do with this?" He fired at the stove, wounded a man, fled to a vacant store, fumbled with his pistol, wounded himself...
...Candidate Smith and his friends rejoiced in another occurrence, near Brooklyn. Borough President Connolly of Queens, whom Governor Smith ordered investigated for alleged sewer grafting, resigned from office...
...outstanding international reputation as an engineer." One is constantly hearing that about Herbert Hoover. But what did he do? I ask from goodnatured ignorance, not a heckler's corner. Where is his Panama Canal, his Brooklyn Bridge, his Moffat tunnel...