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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...built a public market on upper Broadway but it was not a financial success. The Astor policy with real estate had always been to buy, hold for a rise and sell at a profit but put up no improvements. Vincent Astor, during the booming '20s, sold a great deal of property. On onetime Astor land now stands Manhattan's Paramount Building, its Longacre Building, half of its Empire State Building and many another. But Vincent Astor broke family tradition by improving Astor property. He put up $10,000,000 worth of buildings, modernized many old ones, became proud...
Like all Chinese "palaces," it was a maze of sprawling, verandahed, one-story buildings built around open courtyards and roofed with tile of imperial yellow. The entrance was two great sheets of plate glass blazing in red with the character "Sho" (Longevity). The floors were marble, the movable partitions elaborately carved open woodwork, broken with old paintings on silk, panels and mirrors. Known as Pi-shu-shan-chwang (mountain lodge for avoiding the heat), it was famed for The Garden of Ten Thousand Trees and a waterfall that gave the illusion of flowing over jade and breaking into a spray...
Elsewhere throughout the world are other famed relics of Christ, many supposedly discovered by St. Helena, mother of the Emperor Constantine, who set out in 326 to find Christ's tomb and the True Cross. In Jerusalem she found the Holy Sepulchre, built a basilica on the spot. She met a Jew named Judas (later St. Cyriacus) who showed her a ditch containing three crosses. When one of the crosses cured a sick woman, pious Helena sought no further. To Constantinople she sent the cross, three nails and the Holy Tunic now at Argenteuil. To Trier she sent...
...Giants last week appeared fatigued as they started toward their own Polo Grounds-named for the team's first playing field near Central Park. A livelier ball should militate against their winning pennant & World Series again this year. Manager Bill Terry's only change in a team built around four pitchers (Hubbell, Schumacher, Fitzsimmons, Parmelee) was a hard-hitting centerfielder named George Watkins to replace George Davis...
...which eight lives were lost, 700 tattered moppets marched down to the City Hall bearing banners: "We Don't Want'to Burn to Death." Under New York law a tenement is any building housing three families or more. But to a New Yorker tenements mean those built under the lax laws existing prior to 1901. All but four of the 48 deaths in recent tenement fires occurred in "old law" buildings of which New York City has 67,000, most of them dating back to the Civil War. One-half of them are equipped with rusty vertical ladder...