Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Aside from his military display for Dictator Somoza, Franklin Roosevelt let the week pass without making any further reply to Dictator Hitler's sarcastigation of last fortnight. But young Adolf A. Berle Jr., his European sharpshooter at the State Department, was permitted to sound off in Manhattan before the Academy of Political Science. He declared that the American nations meant what they said last winter at Lima: Dictators keep...
...first marriage to Anna Wilmarth Thompson, who died in a motor crash in 1935, Mr. Ickes has a son, Raymond, now 26, who last month got a job in the U. S. Attorney's office, Manhattan. He had a stepson, Wilmarth, who committed suicide in 1936. He and the first Mrs. Ickes also had two foster-children: a girl who is now Mrs. ReQua Bryant of Evanston, Ill., and Robert H. Ickes, 25, onetime WPA clerk, now employed by Duquesne Light Co. in Pittsburgh, who last week eloped with Marcelle Charlotte Levine, 19, to Lisbon, Ohio, where they were...
...squad of customs agents waited one evening last week outside of River House, swank apartment building on Manhattan's east side, until a limousine drove up and deposited a stately, well-dressed dowager: Mrs. James C. Ayer, Colonial Dame and D. A. R., widow of a distinguished doctor who inherited millions of the American Woolen Co. fortune. The customs men followed her up to the Ayer penthouse, there spent three hours going through her personal effects while Mrs. Ayer lay prostrate on a couch. An informer whom they would call only "Mary Doe" had told the Federal men where...
Over the U. S. last week hung the prospect of industrial war on a frightful scale. In a ballroom on the 19th floor of Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel, a onetime college professor in Alabama addressed the only men in the U. S. who could avert this calamity...
John Roy Steelman, director of the U. S. Department of Labor's conciliation service, was in a most unhappy state. His manuscript rattled in his hands, he stumbled over his words. At the behest of Madam Secretary Frances Perkins, he had come to Manhattan to make peace between operators in the great Appalachian coal fields and United Mine Workers' John Lewis, who for seven weeks had been unable to agree on a new labor contract. Having heard him out last week, John Lewis ironically announced that the same committeemen who had failed before would continue to negotiate along...