Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born. To (James) Vincent Sheean, 39, war correspondent, peripatetic journalist, novelist, best-selling autobiographer (Personal History, Not Peace but a Sword), and Diana Forbes-Robertson Sheean, 24: their second child, second daughter; in Manhattan. Weight: 8 Ibs. 10z. Name: Ellen Gertrude...
Separated. Walter Percy Chrysler Jr., 30, arty elder son of Motorman Chrysler, and Marguerite ("Peggy") Sykes Chrysler, by mutual consent, after a marriage of 18 months; in Manhattan...
Died. Monsignor Michael Joseph Lavelle, 83, for 52 years pastor of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan, Vicar General of the New York Roman Catholic Archdiocese; after long illness; in Manhattan. He was uniquely honored by being the first ecclesiastic below archiepiscopal rank to be buried in the cathedral crypt, in company with three Cardinals, two archbishops, including his old friend and superior, Patrick Cardinal Hayes...
...York City, every week, some 30,000 people attend meetings which Jews do well to avoid. At the meetings, held by groups with names like "Christian Front" and "Christian Mobilizers," the streets of upper Manhattan and The Bronx resound with cries of "Buy Christian," "Down with the Jews," "Wait till Hitler comes over here." Only the left-wing press has paid much attention to these gatherings, although in recent months they have resulted in more than 250 arrests and some 85 actual and suspended sentences. (Example last week: Patrick Kiernan, 38, reliefer; three months in the workhouse for an anti...
Jews, left-wingers and some Catholics denounced Father Coughlin and his assertions, but his radio audience began to mount. During the winter, a Gallup poll indicated that he had 4,500,000 steady listeners, 15,000,000 occasional ones. At a Nazi Bund rally in Manhattan, Father Coughlin's name drew as many cheers as Hitler's. By summertime, Coughlinites in the East were organized and articulate enough to plan a parade into the "Jewish-Communist" enemy's territory, Manhattan's Union Square. Father Coughlin called them off. There were indications that he knew...