Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Landlubbing men and women marveled at the newspaper story of one Bessie Davis of Brooklyn, who recently "learned to fly an airplane after only 20 minutes' instruction." But Miss Davis had performed no astounding feat-considering the fact that she simply manipulated one set of controls of a dual-controlled plane, 1,000 feet above the ground. She was as safe as a person learning to drive a new Ford on a wide, straight concrete highway in the absence of traffic. If she had attempted to take the plane off the ground or land it, then she might well...
Sixty-seven years ago the congregation of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, saw Pastor Henry Ward Beecher* mount the pulpit, accompanied by a trembling nine-year-old Negress. Then, while many a woman became hysterical, while many a man shed tears, famed Abolitionist Beecher turned his pulpit into a slave-pen, his sermon into an auctioneer's harangue, asked his hearers to bid $900 for this fine piece of colored flesh- Sally Maria Diggs, commonly known as "Pinky." Last week the congregation of Plymouth Church saw its present pastor share his pulpit with a Negress. They heard him recall that...
...Hunt was established more than a year ago by Dr. J. Stanley Durkee, then president of Howard University, now pastor of Plymouth Church. Hearing that Beecher's "Pinky" was living in Washington, Dr. Durkee sought out Mrs. Hunt, found that she remembered details of her life in Brooklyn. She also had in her possession a copy of the bill of sale executed in 1860. "I am just as certain that Mrs. Hunt is 'Pinky' as I am of my own personality," said Dr. Durkee last week...
...Greenpoint, Brooklyn, one William Connors yanked powerfully on the leash of his police dog, Alex, when the latter, growling savagely, made a sudden leap at a passing woman. The woman screeched, fled. The dog turned, sprang at its master who, burly, sank his fingers in the dog's throat as he was knocked flat. For six minutes man and dog writhed on the sidewalk, snapping, shouting, snarling, grunting. Then the dog groaned, fell limply over, wheezed, died. Police dog experts admitted Alex had "gone wolf...
...Minnie Greenberg of Brooklyn "had trouble" with Mr. Greenberg. She sent their small son Oscar to board with Mr. and Mrs. Max Kashdan, keeping her daughter Mollie at home. Mr. Greenberg died. Mrs. Greenberg became a Mrs. Chaizel and sent for her son Oscar. But the Kashdan family, attached to Oscar whom they had renamed Max, moved 16 times to elude the mother, keep...