Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from heavy telegraph tolls when the Federal Radio Commission granted wavelengths to American Radio News Corp., a Hearst company newly founded for operation of automatic printers by radio. At a cost of about $50,000 each, four transmitting stations are to be built at New Rochelle, N. Y. (Manhattan suburb), San Francisco, Chicago, Atlanta. Hearst-papers and other subscribers will lease their receiving machines from the Hearst radio company, will receive their news in the same form as the teletype, simply by tuning in on the regional broadcasting station...
...Deerfield, Chicago suburb, Mrs. McLaughlin has a dog refuge named "Orphans of the Storm." Last February the kennels burned down (probably set on fire). Ninety dogs died...
...demonstration day for radical labor everywhere. was Mother Jones's birthday. This year she was 100. Many a U. S. Laborite last week planned to celebrate May Day by marching to a plain white two-story frame house just off the road at Silver Spring, Md. (Washington suburb) where "Mother" Jones lay bedridden, boisterous. Among her pillows in the friendly home of Walter Burgess, she was ready for Death. She had arranged for her high requiem mass at St. Gabriel's Church in Washington, her interment at Mt. Olive, Ill. Still matriarchal, still organ-voiced, she said...
Outside Congress, he lives with his wife on an old five-acre farm in the suburb of Berwyn, Md. He is not socially inclined. For amusement he walks, goes to concerts, listens to his wife read aloud. One son is an Annapolis midshipman; another is in a preparatory military school. His nine-year-old daughter Peggy he used to carry with him on the House floor when he was a Congressman. Children are barred from the Senate chamber...
Last week Vienna police heard that a comb manufacturer in the suburb of Meidling had a curious and profitable order for 20,000 round celluloid chips. Too familiar were they with Vienna's fantastic deviltries to ignore such a scent. They found the little celluloid manufacturer patiently, innocently producing replica after replica of the Monte Carlo Casino's 100-franc chips. Anxiously the comb-maker regarded his visitors. When they inquired about the order, he spoke tremblingly of one Simon Rappaport, Polish merchant from Dombrowa...