Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...column of the death of a great man, Dr. Jeremiah W. Jenks, president of Alexander Hamilton Institute and an internationally known economist on Aug. 25. It so happened that his picture was published in an advertisement of the Alexander Hamilton Institute in your magazine for that week. PHILIP SOBEN Brooklyn...
...confused with his able distant cousin, Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett of Rochester, Brooklyn, Syracuse...
Further in your article you infer that I was not present at the Court of Inquiry, at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1924. The truth is the Navy Department asked me if I would be a voluntary witness and I proceeded to New York from Washington and was the only witness called. This is a matter of record with the press and all evidence can be found in the Judge Advocate General's office at Washington...
...famed oldtime National League baseball pitcher (Brooklyn, New York) was successfully operated on in a Brooklyn hospital, for an intestinal disorder. He got his nickname in 1904, when he helped the New York "Giants" win a pennant by pitching and winning three "doubleheaders" (two-games-in-one-day) in close succession...
...Culion. To lepers isolated for life or until cured on Culion, sombre Philippine island, were shipped last week from Brooklyn a lot of huge cans containing comedies, tragedies, newsreels, 778.000 feet of the best films made in the U. S. last year. No leper critic records the reactions of Culion citizens, called "world's kindest audience," to the canned cargo. But once a year when the films, paid for by organized charity, arrive, the Culionites sing, set off fireworks...