Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recession intervened, and Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co., exercising its rights as trustee for Alleghany's bondholders, blocked Robert Young's plans for reorganizing the Van Sweringen holding companies. Although hardly a week passed without spectacular attacks from Financier Young, Guaranty gradually squeezed him out of practically all say in the management of the railroads...
...judgment Old-Testament oratorio, Watchman, What of the Night? by James Gutheim Heller, rabbi of Cincinnati's aged Plum Street Temple. A chorus of 600 children helped Soprano Helen Jepson sing the second: a complicated Magnificat by German-born Hermann Hans Wetzler, who once played the organ in Manhattan's Trinity Church...
Taking Lead Belly north with him to Manhattan, Folklorist Lomax gave him a first shove up the ladder by presenting him in a concert before radio scouts, theatrical agents and pressmen. Lead Belly prospered, bought himself a new guitar, drawled his rhyme-sprouting improvisations in concert halls and over the air. In 1935 he sent for his best girl, swarthy Martha Promise, a Shreveport, La. laundress, and married her in one of the "shoutin'est" suburban weddings Manhattan's Negro colony had ever seen...
...last week it was the old story. Standing in Manhattan General Sessions, greying, 54-year-old Lead Belly once again heard a jury pronounce him guilty. Offense: stabbing and slashing Henry Burgess, another Negro, at a party in a Westside rooming house...
...Manhattan, one John Bowie Carter wanted $1,000,000 so he could get started on a "humanitarian play" covering events from 1649 to the 1940 Presidential election. He wired to the New York Daily News: "Will hold up J. P. Morgan's Wall Street headquarters at 11:07 a. m. . . ." Police met him there right on time. In his pocket they found a bag containing six lollypops...