Word: sidewalkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gentleman with a long white beard and brown dressing gown, dropping a festoon of red paper on a plaster foot and a jumble of wire, was stopping the sidewalk traffic on Philadelphia's busy Chestnut Street last week. He was in a window of Blum's department store, and across the street in Wanamaker's windows were some equally strange displays. Philadelphia's radio station KYW broadcast two haywire programs called "Love on Wheels" and "Love is a Dream," and Philadelphia's newspapers were filled with angry letters-to-the-editor. The answer was that...
Since 1933 the morning and evening Nashville Tennesseans, relics of the financial empire of Promoters Luke Lea and Rogers ("Bank on the South") Caldwell. have been operated by a receiver. Last week, on a Nashville sidewalk, the receiver sold the Tennesseans to Nashville's home-grown Financier Paul Maclin Davis, long-time Lea & Caldwell foe. who was sole bidder. Price of the Tennesseans: $850,000. Liabilities...
There is not so much noise from the Court as there used to be from the sidewalk on the other side when the boys would come rolling home late from whatever it was they had found to come rolling home late from. There used to be uncouth songs and shouts from them sometimes and I would wake up and mutter to myself. Now the only noise that bothers me is the sparrows under the caves and in the ivy near my window. The sparrows start their lively twittering with the first rays of the (to me) invisible...
...teachers, 8-year-old Alonso Romero, son of Mexican Ambassador to Venezuela Dr. Miguel Alonso Romero, presented his teacher with a 2½-carat diamond ring. The teacher had Alonso and the ring taken to the Sheepshead Bay police station where Alonso explained he had found it on the sidewalk outside his home. Worth $900, it was identified as one recently reported missing...
...sending U. S. scholars to Germany and Austria. In progress at Berkshire Mills since Oct. 1 has been a strike against "sweatshop" conditions (TIME, Dec. 7). By last week's end 135 picketers, lying flat in slush and snow outside the plant, had been arrested for "blocking the sidewalk...