Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eric H. Palmer of Brooklyn liked, talked, tinkered with and wrote about radio for several years. He taught it to Eric H. Palmer Jr., 16, his "strong, straight-shouldered" son. He bought Eric H. Palmer Jr. a transmitting set; helped him get an operator's license (2 ATZ) from the Federal Radio Commission; rejoiced in Eric H. Palmer Jr.'s ambition to become "sparks"* on a steamship...
Passengers on the Paris, passengers on the ferries Brooklyn and American Legion later argued about what happened next. There were voices shouting a confusion of orders on the decks of the four boats; a woman on the Paris kept squealing: "Why don't you do something...
Soon the Bessengen toppled into the dark water and sank. There had been 31 souls on board. Eight (the captain said seven) had been saved by the Paris, 13 by the American Legion; Captain Ludwig Hassell, his wife, daughter and dog, by the Brooklyn. Six men had disappeared. They were all Norwegians: a donkeyman, two firemen, a deckhand, an able-bodied seaman, a trimmer. Newspaper presses roared. The rescued told their different stories. Cables flashed from New York to Paris. The Norwegian consul started an investigation. The captain of the Brooklyn denied that his men did not know...
After a few months of study, Mr. McLaughlin decided he must be a banker first. So he last week resigned from his executive vice presidency, announced he had accepted the presidency of the Brooklyn Trust...
December 18--The Reverend John Howland Lathrop, Minister of the First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn...