Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hamlet dug well while they cracked their elaborate jokes. However sad the friends of the sad Ophelia, they knew that she was at least safely, deeply buried. But if facetious gravediggers dig well, serious gravediggers may dig poorly, or indeed not at all. Such was the case in Manhattan last week when more than 300 serious gravediggers went on strike at Calvary, great Catholic cemetery. Due to the gravediggers' seriousness, hundreds of Catholic families feared lest their dead would be improperly, amateurishly buried...
...Into Manhattan's Mecca Temple last week crowded several thousand New York City Republicans to pick a party candidate for Mayor. There was only one avowed candidate-Congressman Fiorella H. La Guardia-after Congresswoman Ruth Pratt had withdrawn because she would not "scramble for votes." So, as Hobson's choice, the convention designated Mr. La Guardia to make the race against Tammany's James John Walker...
Browner than unbleached muslin was Charles L. Bernheimer, 65, Manhattan cotton merchant, when he returned to work last week. For a month he had been exploring the rocky district where Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico join each other at right angles. It was his fourteenth expedition in the Southwest and the seventh he had financed for the American Museum of Natural History. The museum's Barnum Brown accompanied him, and the Carnegie Institution's Earl H. Morris. They found evidence that the extinct Basket Makers, Aborigines who preceded the Cliff Dwellers, used cotton for their textiles, inner...
...state banking laws, which have not been amended since. His boast was that no private bank had failed since the revision became effective. However, the law does not cover all forms of banking. While he was absent digging in the Southwest, the unsupervised banking house of Clarke Bros., Manhattan, failed for $5,000,000 (TIME, July...
James John Walker passed through the lobby of Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton, holding a handkerchief to his cheek. An observer said, "There goes the Mayor, looking half shot." An excitable woman heard, saw the handkerchief, started a report that the Mayor had been shot. Two hours later the Mayor arrived at the City Hall, explained to a frantic horde of reporters that the reason for the handkerchief had been three bad teeth, to be extracted the next...