Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Immigration officials went about their work ostentatiously: in the large, bustling detail which boarded the Batory at Pier 88 on Manhattan's North River were 30 armed border patrolmen rushed from the Canadian border. With a smug smile, the Batory's master, Captain Jan Cwiklinski, accepted an order to stay aboard and keep his crew there until the Batory departed. Four of his crew were taken ashore briefly and questioned...
Last week the Hiss-Chambers case was formally brought before a bar of justice in a Manhattan federal courtroom. In a strictly legal sense, only Alger Hiss was on trial. But in a larger sense both men were equally involved, and the court was simply a well-lighted arena in which they could fight their duel before their fellow citizens with weapons provided...
...weeks the eleven Communists on trial in Manhattan for conspiracy had hankered after martyrdom or a mistrial. Their lawyers had repeatedly raked Federal Judge Harold R. Medina with harsh and measured spite. Sometimes, when their tactics seemed to be getting to him, the judge would leave the courtroom, his face suffused with anger, to compose himself. Last week, at long last, he decided it was time to "reduce the disorder" in his court...
...Concoction. "It was more or less an accident," Holt once said, "that I became a college president." The son of a Manhattan judge, he had begun as a journalist, for eight years was editor and owner of the magazine Independent. With William Howard Taft he helped found, in 1915, the League to Enforce Peace, ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in 1924. He still found time to concoct a few theories on what a modern college should be. In 1925, Rollins gave him a chance to try them...
...graduated from Wellesley in 1930, went on to take a Ph.D. at Columbia University. She taught at Manhattan's progressive Dalton Schools, later became the first woman teacher in the history department of New York's City College. She later became an assistant professor at Brooklyn College and last year won a Pulitzer Prize for a scholarly biography, Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow. Last week, at 39, pretty, petite Historian Clapp won Wellesley's top honor: out of 150 candidates, she was chosen the college's eighth president...