Word: sidewalkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cartoon by potent Rollin Kirby. entitled "Not on the Same Side of the Street," pictured plug-hatted Banker Morgan and his partners walking unconcerned up one sidewalk while on the other a long line of common citizens waited humbly to pay their income taxes.∙ A feature by Reporter Earl Sparling blatantly exaggerated the House of Morgan's "control" of everything John Doe eats, drinks and uses. Ruth Finney was permitted to shrill: "They [Morgan & Co.] can regiment something like $53,000,00,.000 to do their bidding." Another story bitterly inventoried the Morgan expenditures on yachts, model farms...
...first prize for a beer garden design, showing tables around a mammoth blue vase and plots of pink flowers, the walls shaded by a yellow awning. One contestant entered a design for a cafe with a glass front that could be raised or lowered to open it to the sidewalk. Last week hotel men went to the Mart for ideas for equipment. Three orders resulted...
Died. Famed Professor Ashley Horace Thorndike of Columbia University, 61; in Manhattan. Stricken with a heart attack as he was walking home from a club dinner. Professor Thorndike was found unconscious as he lay on a deserted Madison Avenue sidewalk. Best-known Thorndike textbooks: Facts about Shakespeare; Tragedy; English Comedy...
...acknowledges his debt to German and English sources: there ought to be at least one Biergarten, right in the heart of things, which might have to be closed-in from the wet and cold of the New England winter, but which, in spring, would expand luxuriously onto the sidewalk with its tables and chairs. To achieve the most pleasant contrast, he hopes it would be located next door to some particularly staid establishment, like the Harvard Trust. For those who want beverage without food, however, he has planned his piece de resistance. This is to be a combination...
...with job-seekers. Press pictures appeared of huge crowds lined up for work before the Anheuser-Busch plant in St. Louis. ¶In Manhattan the fashionable Waldorf-Astoria began to fix up a "tavern" for beer-drinkers. The Fifth Avenue Hotel planned to convert a restaurant into an imitation sidewalk café and call it the Roosevelt Room. In Milwaukee where factory whistles and fire-engine sirens welcomed the return of beer the famed old Blatz Hotel revived its palm garden for German beer drinkers. ¶Moaned Anti-Saloon League's Francis Scott McBride: "The iron hand...