Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...come for a six-weeks' tour, under the patronage of Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf. Soon they gave their first Carnegie Hall concert, marching out on the stage with the traditional white caps of Swedish choral societies, preceded by their national flag. The Swedish glee clubs of Manhattan and Brooklyn sang songs of welcome from the rear of the audience...
...other was a stocky Jew of 30-Charles A. Levine-an industrialist of Brooklyn. He began his business career by selling second-hand automobiles. He made several million dollars by salvaging ammunition after the War. He met his wife when she won a Brooklyn beauty contest. Something romantic in him, as well as shrewd business acumen, prompted him to affiliate himself with aviation manufacturing. The U. S. Government refused to grant him an air mail contract, criticized his record. Aviators said he was trying to commercialize a sport, when financial squabbles delayed Chamberlin's flight. Levine...
Faculty Scholarships were awarded to Herman Adelbert Bryant, of Petersham; Arthur Francis Chaisson, of St. John, New Brunswick; Edmund Cortez, of Wind Gap, Pennsylvania; Giovanni Ippolito Giardini, of New Castle, Pensylvania, and Roger Wellington Holmes, of Brooklyn, New York...
Polytechnic School, Brooklyn, N. Y., June 6.--The award of the Harvard Cup for 1927 to Joseph Dana Allen Jr. was announced here today by Dr. E. S. Hawes, former Poly professor. This cup is awarded annually to that member of the graduating class who in the opinion of the judges has best upheld Harvard ideals throughout his school career. A committee of Harvard men on the school faculty acted as judges in making the award, and Dr. Hawes in his presentation speech gave a brief outline of ideals for which the cup stands...
Some 145,000 spectators believed that they had received their money's worth when the automobile of Racer Norman Batten of Brooklyn burst into flames. Batten stood up, like the boy on the burning deck. He steered with his right arm until it was scorched, then with his left, then with his right again-until he brought the car to a stop in front of his pit where the flames were extinguished. If he had leaped to safety when the car first took fire, it might have crashed into the grandstands and killed dozens of spectators...