Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scrubbed whistle-clean, the tomb of Ulysses S. Grant was rededicated in Manhattan. Commented Joseph Hudnut of Harvard Architectural School in The New Republic: "This ponderous, huge monster has seized this unaffected and reticent man and holds him ... in an eternal pillory of pomp and pretense...
...many years physicians have known that powerful doses of X-rays will destroy cancer cells, but no scientist had ever worked out a satisfactory theory for this phenomenon. Two years ago Italian-born Physicist Gioacchino Failla, who is in charge of the physics and biophysics laboratories at Manhattan's famed Memorial Hospital, suggested a straight-forward physical theory for the lethal effect of X-rays. An electric charge passing through a cell, said Dr. Failla, divides the molecules of protoplasm into positively and negatively charged particles. These ions then recombine to form new chemical substances. In a vain attempt...
...Manhattan every Sunday afternoon is published a flamboyant newspaper called the New York Enquirer. The Enquirer's headlines are so big & black that they have ceased to attract attention; its circulation is not listed with the Audit Bureau of Circulation. The Enquirer is violently anti-New Deal, violently pro-William Randolph Hearst, which has led some people to suspect that Mr. Hearst was an angel to the activities of its publisher, flamboyant William Griffin...
Newsworthy fact: not one Manhattan paper mentioned the Hooton article as news...
...scientist father, comforted by "messages" from him, turns spiritualist. The boy turns up, unrecognizable because of face wounds, commits suicide rather than disillusion his father. In the play, the playwright ends by throwing this drama into the wastebasket. But Warner Bros, (discovered Leonard Lyons, unwearied whitewing of Manhattan's night spots) want to buy it for Paul Muni...