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...Manhattan, gaunt, long-faced Edith Hanson, 39, casually drank five free bottles of beer and borrowed $10 from Delicatessen Owners Robert Wolf and Alfred Wolitsky in the course of ordering 125 corned beef sandwiches, 50 liverwurst sandwiches ("peeled"), 75 limburger sandwiches ("smeared thin"), 150 turkey sandwiches (white meat) to be delivered within six hours to Welfare Island's hospital prison, as well as a standing weekly order of 350 shrimp salads and 600 coleslaw salads. Delicatesseners Wolf and Wolitsky, their suspicions aroused on the ground that "sick people don't eat coleslaw," investigated, discovered that Miss Hanson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Order | 9/2/1935 | See Source »

...opposite corner, raised Ross's hand. First lightweight champion in history to win the welterweight championship as well. Barney Ross (Bernard Rossofsky) had his first fist fight when he was eight years old, grew up on Chicago's West Side where his father ran a delicatessen, has two managers, wears silk pajamas, fancies himself a songwriter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ross v. McLarnin | 6/4/1934 | See Source »

Said article is especially apropos at this time in view of a recent decision in the Magistrate's Court of New York City in reference to the violation of the kosher food laws by Jacob Branfman & Son, one of the largest, if not the largest of the kosher delicatessen manufacturers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 22, 1933 | 5/22/1933 | See Source »

Many a bimah (pulpit) of New York synagogs vibrated with Rabbinical wrath last Friday evening. The Kashruth Association, guild of ritual food inspectors, met during the week in anger. Some 6,500 kosher butcher shops feared for their supplies. Half as many kosher delicatessen stores were worried about their spicy provender; householders in The Bronx, Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn chirped excitedly. All because of horrid disclosures of racketeering in the city's kosher food markets (see p. 15). The Kashruth Association called conditions in the kosher chicken markets "a blot upon the good name of the Jew." The Kashruth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Kashruth Endangered | 5/8/1933 | See Source »

...Brooklyn, Patrolman Thomas Erwin strolled down Fifth Avenue at midnight, saw two men shin up an elevated pillar, climb to the roof of a delicatessen store. Following, Sleuth Erwin found the two removing panes of glass from the roof's skylight, arrested one, missed the other. In court, Climber Luciani Perlizzi, 21, explained that he had a girl, that she was bringing a "blind date" (unknown girl) for his companion, that his companion insisted on seeing her first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 17, 1933 | 4/17/1933 | See Source »

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