Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such vexing questions as these, in which Mosaic law and Talmudic maxims must be applied to modern life, are on the docket of a Jewish Court of Justice (Beth Din), which opens this week in Manhattan. The first permanent court of its kind in the U. S., the Beth Din is composed of three black-capped Orthodox rabbis - Max Felshin, Benjamin Fleischer, Reuben Maier-and a secretary, Jacob S. Cohen. It will judge divorce cases, slander suits, business disputes, will decide matters of law which might baffle a single rabbi. For certain grave matters, the rabbis will call...
...February by criticizing Neville Chamberlain in his book, Betrayal in Central Europe. Last March he lost his berth with the New York Times by being booted out of Prague by the Gestapo. Last week unlucky Correspondent Gedye (pronounced Geddy), a brisk, bright-eyed Englishman, paying his first visit to Manhattan, was offered his choice of two new posts. The Times would send him to Moscow or to Mexico City, its vacancy in Rome having been filled last month by Spanish War Correspondent Herbert L. Matthews. Although Hitler has caught up with him in his last two posts, Correspondent Gedye, feeling...
...more than 50 years New York's Roosevelt ladies, Republican and Democrat alike, have bought their clothes at Manhattan's Arnold Constable. (Onetime Department Manager William Kramer once paddywhacked fractious young Teddy Roosevelt, who tagged along with his mother.) Since 1929, all Anna Eleanor Roosevelt's ceremonial clothes have been designed by strapping, golden-blonde Lucille Mahoney, Arnold Constable's designer-buyer. Last week Miss Mahoney completed her most exacting assignment: nine ensembles to be worn during the visit of King George and Queen Elizabeth. They include: an ermine stole made of 250 Alaskan pelts...
When he died insane in 1918, Cesar Ritz, onetime Swiss goatherd was the most famed hotelman in Europe, had given his name to 19 farflung hotels. In Manhattan last week arrived his widow, Madame Cesar Ritz, 72, who still helps run the Ritz in Paris. Mme Ritz had come to see the World's Fair, survey the latest American hotel methods, master the art of preparing ice cream sodas, which "we do so badly in Paris." She stayed a few days at the Waldorf, then moved on to the Ritz-Carlton...
Only one striking reaction came from the 300 Congressmen who came, listened and departed. It was provided by Manhattan's Representative Sol Bloom (who attended with Mrs. Bloom and Daughter Vera). Promoted to the important Foreign Relations Committee by his ex-colleague, New Deal purge victim John O'Connor, Sol Bloom has spent much of his time selling George Washington to the American people. But this time, after eating his way through an evening of Roosevelt-hating speeches, Sol got up to sell FDR to the folks. One lone, small boo came from the audience, but it found...