Word: morrises
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Junior Pete Reider, running from scratch, covered the distance in 17 minutes, 11 seconds to break the record for the race, 18 minutes, 34.5 seconds, set in 1954 by Bill Morris.
To New York came the bold and the fearful, the strong and the helpless of the world: first the sturdy Dutch traders, then French-speaking Walloons, Norwegians, Danes, Germans, Scots, English, and, on a slow boat from Brazil, 23 Jews. By 1644, just 35 years after Henry Hudson sailed up...
In election year 1956, two of the major figures on that tapestry are New York City's Democratic Mayor Robert Ferdinand Wagner Jr., the only son of Immigrant Bob Wagner, and New York's Republican Attorney General Jacob Koppel Javits, a son of Immigrant Morris Javits. They have...
Friend in Need. Robert Wagner Sr. and Morris Javits were faceless in the arriving masses of the 1880s. But, like millions of other groping, bewildered, lonely immigrants, they found a friend in the New York County Democratic organization: Tammany Hall. Whatever its sins-and they were many-Tammany provided a...
Dollars to Democrats. When Bob Wagner, as a boy, was hobnobbing with New York's great and near-great, Jack Javits was a skinny-legged Jewish kid on Manhattan's Lower East Side ("In New York State," he says, "that is like being born in a log cabin...