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...general run of positions secured by the Office include chauffeurs, clerical workers, playground supervisors, salesmen, translators, tutors, and waiters. There is also an entertainment bureau which supplies lecturers, entertainers, and orchestras and is open to all students who have special abilities whether they have financial difficulties or not. More than 300 engagements were filled by the bureau last year. Window washing and snow shoveling services were also proven popular successes last year...
...year-executive smugly viewing the man-made greenness of the Bronx River Parkway; Miss $15-a-week dictation sponge engulfing a hectic ham-on-rye; sunshine on the glories of Park Avenue; the same sunshine on the littered, crowded alloys of Mike Gold's 606 playground (the East Side); Fifth Avenue jammed with taxis, limousines and fur-clad ladies with good dogs; dismal parks replete with dejected souls, magnificent churches disgorging uplifted souls; bustling symbolic Wall Street, beggars, radicals, bankers, gangsters; longshoremen--a consolidated mass of humanity, steel and stone. The book is arranged on the thin theme...
Longtime dream of Atlantic City's Mayor Harry Bacharach has been a new railroad station for "America's Playground." Last week, on his 61st birthday, Mayor Bacharach's dream came true. To the dedication exercises of the resort's new $250,000 Union Station went Governor Arthur Harry Moore, Vice President Martin Withington Clement of Pennsylvania Railroad and many a cheering Atlantic Citizen. The new station has eight loading platforms three blocks long, can handle 10,000 visitors at once. Eliminated are two old railroad stations, twelve grade crossings...
Smack in the middle of the slum-mulligan of Manhattan's lower East Side two barefaced, rectangular apartments rear their bricks twelve stories into the air. Jointly christened Knickerbocker Village, they cover four whole city blocks. Between the two units is a concrete playground, and within each will be a garden. Each of the 1,593 apartments has wooden parquet floors, electric refrigeration, tiled bathrooms, outside windows. The elevators are self-operating. Rentals range from $22.50 for 2½ rooms on the ground floor to $87.50 for a 5½-room penthouse. Average is $12.50 a room. Knickerbocker Village will cost about...
...Because Knickerbocker Village is also Manhattan's first experiment in government-financed, low-cost housing, RFC's Chairman Jesse H. Jones, East-Sider Alfred E. Smith, many a minor wig gathered in its banner-decked playground to mark the day. Said Al Smith: "I was tempted to swap the Empire State Building." Chairman Jones thumped the tub of slum clearance. Informed that the first of the two units was already 95% rented, while the second unit (to be opened Dec. 1) was 50% rented, he waved an expansive hand at the holiday bunting, declared: "I know of no ... safer investment...