Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another account: Billy Patterson was a beloved Manhattan barkeep of the 1880s, who was felled one night as he left the Star and Garter's side door, by an unknown dastard with a blackjack...
Jimmy Hines's father was a master horseshoer in Manhattan. To profit by shoeing police and fire horses, he had to be close to the Tammany machine. His shop was a hangout for neighborhood politicians and young Jimmy, who at 14 quit eighth grade to start working in the shop, soon learned about precinct politics...
...holders of tickets on Workman in the Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes drawing, it was a marvelous race indeed. All but the four who had sold half interests to soft-soaping, sixtyish Sidney Freeman (representing Douglas Stuart, Ltd., last week in Manhattan) stood to collect $141,000 each...
Born. To Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, 40, multimillionaire horseman, and his wife, the former Gwladys Crosby ("Gee") Hopkins, 33: a daughter, their first child; in Manhattan...
...Manhattan, seniors at New York University's Washington Square College voted that they would hold out for $25 a week before taking their first jobs, announced that in five years they expect an annual salary...