Word: madison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meeting be held, therefore, in Madison Square Garden, or other suitable, very large hall, with a division of the sittings-say, to the number of 3,000 for our Calvary members and friends, and the same number for, say, the St. Patrick's Cathedral congregation and your friends-the other 20,000 sittings to be equally divided between Democratic and Republican headquarters for distribution...
...Died. Mrs. Max Mason, wife of the onetime (1925-28) president of the University of Chicago, who resigned in May to join the board of the Rockefeller Foundation (TIME, May 21); of bronchial pneumonia; in Madison...
...rumors of an internal hemorrhage, suffered, in Wilkesbarre, Pa., by a onetime contestant, a week after he had resigned from the marathon. With this as evidence they commanded Promoter Crandall to stop his marathon. Half an hour before the time set for foreclosure, Promoter Crandall mounted the rostrum in Madison Square Garden, made an eloquent and graceful speech and announced his immediate intention of transferring the entire spectacle to another state. "In this land of the free and home of the brave," he shouted, "no one ever got stomach ulcers from dancing . . . every participant except the male member of team...
...regarded as uninteresting, futile, vulgar. On the tenth day the New York Evening Graphic published "doctored" photographs of contestants, showing faces that were thinned and blackened with exhaustion, suggesting that the dance marathon was not only silly but cruel. At this, a vast throng of persons rushed to Madison Square Garden and bought their way in. The marathon which had hitherto been a financial failure bloomed into success. The dancers, whose ranks were by this time greatly reduced, became famous and excited; they whirled and shuffled happily, receiving donations from the audience...
...Buffalo, Paterson, Scranton and Harrisburg, as well as in London, Berlin and Paris, with the assistance of "Cold Cash" Pyle. Of last week's endurance fiestas, the most successful, from a mercenary standpoint, was one in Chicago with which Mr. Crandall had been invited to associate but which his Madison Square engagement antedated. Another contemporary ball was being held in upper Manhattan, for Negro couples...