Word: end
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eminence Patrick Cardinal Hayes the strikers sent a telegram: TO MEET PUBLIC DEMAND TO END THE STRIKE WE PROPOSE THAT ALL QUESTIONS AND DISPUTES BE SETTLED BY A BOARD OF ARBITRATION. Officials refused to arbitrate, 18 superintendents of New York cemeteries having agreed that the strike was unjustified...
...multitudes wending their way to St. Peter's Square. The day grew hot, the streets blazed. Black-shirted soldiers halted the crowds, inspected pockets, handbags. By 4 p. m. the immense elliptical plaza before St. Peter's was packed with 200,000 expectant, perspiring people. At the far end loomed the pillared portico of Christendom's mightiest church, draped with languid purple streamers, yellow and white papal flags, banners of Italy...
...half-million eyes watched the centre portal of St. Peter's, symbolic on this occasion of the Vatican's boundary. When the Pope crossed that threshold he would end Papai imprisonment, voluntarily undergone for 59 years...
...EATER OF DARKNESS-Robert M. Coates-Macaulay ($2.50). "To My Father and Mother, Nick Carter . . . ex-Mayor Hylan, Gertrude Stein . . . Oleg Skrypitzine . . . Gerald Chapman, Harold Loeb, The New York Times . . . and Fantomas this book is affectionately or gratefully dedicated." Author Coates lives in Manhattan's Chelsea at the end of a disconnected telephone-wire, and it is in Chelsea that his story begins. There one Charles Dograr, "a rare and sensitive soul" meets "one night at 5 a. m." a remarkably white-browed, long-handed old gentleman clad in a pair of long green silk stockings. Old Picrolas reveals...
...passengers who ride each day on elevators in New York City. Elevator speeds vary from 700 ft. to 1,000 ft. per minute. There are 28,104 elevators in Manhattan. Chances are 218,000,000 to 1 that an elevator-passenger will be alive at the end of a trip. Buildings with most elevators are: Equitable, 59; New York Life, 38; New York Central and Graybar, 37 each. Tall Woolworth has only 30. Manhattan had 105 elevator accidents last year. Many of these involved not elevators but careless persons falling down the shafts...