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For weeks the Neanderthal brow of Tammany Congressman Sol Bloom had been furrowed. Now he was beaming. Only yesterday he had discovered what he had been looking for: the grave of one Brockholst Livingston (1757-1823), in Manhattan's Trinity Churchyard. Sol Bloom stumped into the marble vastness of...
For its first decade (1924-34), Manhattan's municipal WNYC existed largely as a sort of rehearsal hall for singing firemen, whitewing bands, etc., a public address system for Tammany functions. But in 1934, when Fusion, LaGuardia & Reform took over, WNYC got a thorough house cleaning. It went in...
Last week Manhattan's labor station, WEVD (named for Eugene V. Debs), offered free air to councilmen after meetings. A Fusionist, a Republican and a Laborite showed up, talked about yardstick milk plants, home rule, unfinished business. But with no Democrat on hand to make a go of it...
In Washington, the House for the fourth time since 1922 considered a Federal anti-lynching bill. When a similar bill was last up in the House, Mississippi lynchers did their timely bit by blow-torching, shooting and roasting two Negroes to death at Duck Hill (TIME, April 26, 1937). The...
In Detroit, a new mayor-young Edward Jeffries-was elected with C.I.O. backing. In San Francisco, Mayor Angelo Rossi was re-elected over a New Deal Congressman who had the support of Harry Bridges and the C.I.O. Republican victories in Pennsylvania and New Jersey brought a bugle blast of triumph...