Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Admitting the difficulty of bringing a cow, or any large beast, into Manhattan the Livestock division, nevertheless, was disappointing. There was only one entry this year: a dozen diminutive dinosaria (spotted newts), which dozed unconcernedly through the whole affair...
...streamlined look of the new models had not been accomplished without certain annoying disadvantages. Some roofs were so low that a medium-sized man had to take off his hat to sit down-a phenomenon which caused Manhattan Designer Raymond Loewy to dash off a critical cartoon for the benefit of the Society of Automotive Engineers...
Henry Wallace, for instance, declared that the murder was due to "British and American imperialism." Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker suggested that the crime had been committed by British agents provocateurs who had infiltrated the Stern gang and whose task was "plotting assassinations...
...Ingram, Negro actor who played "De Lawd" in the movie version of Green Pastures, was picked up in Manhattan for violation of the Mann Act. The charge: importing a 15-year-old white high-school sophomore from Salina, Kans., for a weekend in New York (Rex had made the plane reservation for her, and she had given the family the slip by telling them that she was going shopping in Topeka). When the 53-year-old actor heard that he might be taken back to Kansas City for trial, he cried: "But I don't want...
Died. Dr. Ruth Fulton Benedict, 61, Columbia professor of anthropology; of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan. A poetess who first took up anthropology as a hobby, Dr. Benedict wrote her monumental Patterns of Culture to document her theory that whole societies behave like human personalities. When she co-authored The Races of Mankind in 1943 to refute the Nazi master-race doctrine, a House committee found her statements on racial equality "controversial," banned the book from Army distribution...