Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small part of the show is owned by Surrealist Dali and Julien Levy, who runs a high-brow Manhattan art gallery; most of it by a group of oldsters with Broadway experience. Never publicity-shy, Dali, who recently broke one of Bonwit Teller's Fifth Avenue show windows because Bonwit Teller tampered with his display, is at present berating the Fair because it would not let him exhibit, outside his nuthouse, a woman with the head of a fish. Merrily upping the publicity, Dali's Dream of Venus has sent out a long press release headed: "Is Dali...
Having in three years amassed 3,800,000 claimed members by notably aggressive "defense," Mr. Lewis announced last week that unpeaceful C. I. O. hereafter will carry its war to the enemy, which claims 3,600,000 members. First example of his new tactics followed forthwith. In Manhattan Mr. Carey's union sued for an injunction to restrain A. F. of L. from boycotting (refusing to install or handle) electrical products made by C. I. O. workers. Thus Labor, by requesting an injunction, turned upon itself a favorite weapon of anti-union employers...
Tall, sandy-haired, handsome Walther Wilhelm August Ludwig Reinhardt, expert .golfer & tennis player, author of a prize-winning life of George Washington (in German), used to flutter U. S. feminine hearts as German consul in Chicago, Manhattan, Seattle. Last week he was still consul general in Liverpool, England, but the British Government, charging he helped a laborer sell Germans plans of Britain's big shell factory at Euxton, demanded his recall. Sore as hornets at recent expulsions of their inept agents, Nazis threatened reprisals against Britons in Germany if Consul Reinhardt...
...perfidious Britons had built a stone shelter on one of the Minquiers, while law-abiding Frenchmen had none, raised 20,000 francs by public subscription to build one. Led by Yachtsman-Painter "Marin-Marie" (Durand le Couppel de Saint-Front, who in 1936 took a 40-foot motorboat from Manhattan to Cherbourg), 40 Breton fishermen landed on Maitresse, began building...
...some of the money he had made from his Camden Post and Courier bought the doddering Philadelphia Record from John Wanamaker. At that time the third largest U. S. city had five listless, uncompetitive and politically hogtied papers. No good newspaperman considered Philadelphia worth a stop between Baltimore and Manhattan...