Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Charles Hoff and Helmer H. Bryn, both of Norway, one an extraordinary pole-vaulter, the other Minister to the U. S., called at the White House and shook the President's hand. Other callers on the same day were members of the swimming team of the Brooklyn Central...
...them, Congressman Emanuel Celler, Democrat from Brooklyn, issued a statement: "If the Carthcart case shows anything it proves that our Government has no right to meddle in private morals of foreigners visiting us. The so-called 'moral turpitude' of the Countess Cathcart is nothing compared to the 'moral turpitude' of the chasing but not chaste Prince of Wales. Why was he allowed to enter? His parents are up all night worrying about his night life. How about Sarah Bernhardt and Eleanore Duse? They made no bones about their affairs and were admitted. Gaby Deslys was no novice...
...Brooklyn last month John Seles, butcher, was held up and robbed of $40 in his small store. Last week, Taximan John Kirschner entered the store, stood behind Butcher Seles, cried, "Hands up! Get into the ice box!" Butcher Seles whirled, drove his cleaver through the base of Mr. Kirschner's skull, though neck muscles and three large veins. Hospitalized, close to death, Mr. Kirschner said, "I was only fooling." No whit penitent, Butcher Seles said, " A joke, eh? What a joke, I'd say! . . . Yes, his wife, she's a customer...
About the corridors of Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, Sailor John Davis last week gingerly shuffled. On his swarthy, Africa-tanned face, was a look of puzzled anxiety. Internes watched him; nurses watched him; busy surgeons paused for an inquiring word. Sailor John had a funny looking fibrous ring around the base of each little toe. He did not know what caused them. Perhaps on his recent job of exploring in African jungles he had acquired some mysterious disease. Yet it caused him no pain. Only, his little toes were acquiring a dead look. Leprosy? "No," declared examining surgeons called...
...stores. The chain systems will be the first annexed by National Food Products. Already the new corporation claims an investment of $4,500,000, but not control, in 12 systems operating 2,000 stores in 20 states. Among these chains: the H. C. Bohack Co. (300 stores, chiefly in Brooklyn); James Butler Inc.; Borden Milk Co.; U. S. Stores Corporation (1,050 grocery and meat stores in 12 states); David Pender Grocery Co. (Virginia); First National Stores, Inc. (Boston); U. S. Dairy Products Corporation; Reid Ice Cream Corporation; Abbotts-Alderney Dairies, Inc. (Philadelphia); Detroit Creamery Co. Packing plants and bakeries...