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...Prime mover for the Triborough Bridge was Robert Moses. In 1933 as New York State Emergency Public Works Commission Chairman, he organized the Triborough Bridge Authority, begged and borrowed the New Deal millions. Made New York City's Fusion Park Commissioner in 1934, he worked out the essential chain of highways tying the bridge into Long Island's great parkway system and East Side Manhattan traffic. The heart of the Triborough begins with a suspension bridge across Hell Gate to Wards Island, whence the elevated highway turns north to Randalls Island. There occurs the Y's split...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Triborough | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

Robert Brainerd '38, prime-mover behind the Student Union's objection to the bill, will not speak at the hearing, having agreed to withdraw in favor of the Student Council, feeling that the latter would be more effective...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Council Urges Repeal of Teachers Oath Bill in Resolution | 3/10/1936 | See Source »

...FRED MOVER JORDAN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 2, 1935 | 12/2/1935 | See Source »

...Goods Association, the National Association of Retail Druggists, the National Council of Shoe Retailers, the National Association of Music Merchants. It is not even possible to learn with any certainty the total of U. S. stores. Recalling his experience on the NRA Advisory Board, Merchant Kirstein, prime ARF mover, said last week: "Everybody went down to Washington and began writing codes for retailers to observe. There was no single authoritative group to speak for retailers generally, and they were outshouted in the proceedings which followed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Retailer's Voice | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

...furniture mover lugs a huge over-stuffed chair from van to house, with Henry taking his ease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Henry & Philbert | 2/11/1935 | See Source »

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