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...Broadway, and in Manhattan's garment district, where the crowds were thickest, the ticker tape fell, confetti and torn telephone books swirled down from the windows, pasting the wet streets with wastepaper. The parade had lasted four hours. New York police chiefs estimated the crowd at from...
...crowd was bigger, standing five deep at the station gate, waving small American flags. Dewey went straight to a press conference at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, riding in an open car at the head of a 25-car motorcade. Going down Broad Street, there was a brief shower of ticker tape, no big, organized confetti cascade. In the afternoon, Dewey paid the necessary visit to Independence Hall, required of all political candidates...
...blizzard of confetti, ticker tape and torn newspapers fell dizzily through the afternoon sun into Manhattan's Rockefeller Plaza. The crowd wept happily...
...three Yankee pilots demanded a return to the official flag. On the ship's ticker system they called on "all men who love the Union" to stand together and if necessary "trample the flag of Jeff Davis in the dust...
...esthetic matters. Collector Bache lent a willing ear to Lord Duveen, he handled the business end of his collection with the same care that he watched ticker tapes. In 1937, by an arrangement with New York State, he formed the Jules Bache Foundation. This enabled him to live on the third floor of his Manhattan Museum, enjoy his pictures, pay no taxes on the property. (In 1936, so many Bache holdings were outside the U.S. that Art-Lover Bache was unable to pay any Federal income tax at all that year.) But before he died, Jules Bache changed his mind...