Word: midtown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hearing that the reputable Midtown Galleries were last week exhibiting the paintings of a lady named Minna Citron, Manhattan critics bustled round to have a look. They found a quiet, sharp-featured, well-dressed Brooklyn housewife of 38 with two sons and an interest in cooking and psychoanalysis who is artistically something far rarer: a feminine satirist, troubled not by man's inhumanity to woman but by the follies...
...last week the Life Extension Institute, with Messrs. Fisher & Ley still in control, had become a $2,000,000 concern, occupying three floors of a midtown Manhattan building and offices in Chicago. Its doctors had made 1,620,000 medical examinations during the preceding 22 years. Three of every 100 examinees came on their own initiative attracted by the advertising which the Life Extension Institute no longer finds necessary or by some of 2,000,000 educational leaflets distributed each year. Two were employees whom business concerns needed to keep healthy. The other 95 were holders of insurance policies whom...
...Ayer's birthplace is now a noisy midtown block opposite Gimbel's department store. One of the first things she learned from her father, New York's second Negro doctor, and her mother, a white woman from the Isle of Wight, was to despise racial prejudice. That attitude and the New York Board of Education's steadfast insistence on racial equality kept her career from being blocked...
Banding together 126 years ago after a schism in the Baptist Church, the Abyssinian Baptists so named their sect because they liked the sound. They worshipped first in downtown Worth Street, moved northward with the city's color line. When the church was in midtown 26 years ago there arrived in its pulpit a tall, rawboned, Yale-trained Negro named A. (for Adam) Clayton Powell. After years of planning for a model church in Harlem, Pastor Powell began raising money in 1920, got 2,000 people to promise to give their church a tenth of their weekly earnings...
...Brooklyn met the Marriage Brokers' Association of the U.S. To its members the Association's secretary, Rabbi Nathan Wolf, reported that business is indeed shlecht, with kalles (would-be brides) outnumbering chassanim (would-be grooms) ten to one. Next day Rabbi Wolf received newshawks in the midtown Manhattan Synagog where, at an annual cost of $500 to New York City, he is the only registered voter. Wearing a black skullcap, he tabulated chassanim according to their worth as husbands. Most in demand are doctors, who may command a dowry of $12,000. Rabbis get from...