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...clerks, guards, runners - attend Trinity's daily noonday service. Six or eight old-fashioned limousines still roll downtown each Sunday morning, bearing Cranes, Dixes, Livingstons, Burleighs to church. But most of Trinity's Sunday congregation, which averages around 200, now comes by subway and ferry from Brooklyn, Staten Island, The Bronx...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Trinity's Idea | 8/6/1934 | See Source »

William Henry Aspinwall's sister, Mary Rebecca, married Isaac Roosevelt, the President's grandfather. Great-Uncle William passed a youth "of moral purity" in a "refined and Christian' home in Bleeker Street," according to his Staten Island minister upon the occasion of Mr. Aspinwall's death in 1875. Aged 25, he was taken into partnership in the mercantile firm of Gardiner G. & Samuel S. Howland. his uncles. The firm later fell largely into his hands, developed a thriving trade in the Mediterranean, an unrivalled one in the Pacific and East Indies, a downright monopoly in Venezuela. His venture into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Great-Uncle | 7/23/1934 | See Source »

Coach Harry Cowles of the Varsity tennis team has entered seven men in the Eastern and National Intercollegiate Tennis Championship Tournaments, starting at Staten Island on Monday, June 18, and Monday, June 25, respectively...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NETMEN TO COMPETE | 6/13/1934 | See Source »

...President Roosevelt been two hours late he would not have delayed the ceremonies. Off Staten Island fog closed in. The Indianapolis dropped anchor, whistled for a wind to blow the dank pall away. Ultimately the whistling had its effect. After noon the four-starred cruiser reached the reviewing grounds two mi. south of Ambrose Lightship, followed by the Louis-mile bearing lesser lights of the Government. Out of the distant haze emerged the battleship Pennsylvania, flagship of the Fleet, with the clean, high silhouets of airplane carriers Saratoga and Lexington behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Off Ambrose | 6/11/1934 | See Source »

...SCOTT BUHRMAN, F. A. G. O. Editor The American Organist Staten Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 28, 1934 | 5/28/1934 | See Source »

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