Word: uptown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with you and I'll waive extradition." The Messiah was bundled off to police headquarters in Manhattan. It was after midnight, too late for his three attorneys to arrange bail, so Father Divine spent the rest of the night in jail. In noisy Harlem, miles uptown, word of "God's" plight circulated, and soon the streets near the jail began filling with chanting Negroes (see pictures...
...hotel, never married. His comparatively modest interest in charity began when he became interested in the Boy Scout Foundation of Greater New York. He learned enough of recreational work to want to contribute to a few social service agencies, in 1926 gave $100,000 for the site of an uptown Manhattan boys' club. "The businessmen . . . will not have accomplished their full duty," once said reticent Bachelor Hayden, "until there is a Boys' Club in every town . . . in which [boys] may have their God-given right to play and work. . . ." Spiritually stirred by a planetarium performance in Chicago...
...Orleans, drivers who park near the coliseum, midtown auditorium or uptown stadia are pestered by urchins or oldsters who offer to watch cars for a small tip. If it is refused, they slash tires, put gravel in the gas tank, disconnect the carburetor. In San Francisco, boys cluster around fashionable restaurants, try to watch cars or get taxis. Philadelphia had a lot of trouble with bands of 12-year-olds who worked a similar racket around Shibe Park, Temple Stadium, Franklin Field, the Convention Hall. Police finally stifled it by making arrests for "malicious mischief." Los Angeles police...
...management of the $187,500,000 Tide Water Associated Oil Co. counted proxies for a corporate simplification plan in the company's office downtown at No. 17 Battery Place, Tide Water's biggest stockholder, a man with a $20,000,000 stake in the proceedings, sat uptown in his swank Sutton Place penthouse unable to do anything about...
...Bibles and texts in 972 languages and dialects to all parts of the world. Bible House still belongs to the Society, will continue to be used as a storehouse for $2,000,000 worth of printing plates for Bibles in 49 languages. That the Society could move uptown and across the street from William Randolph Hearst's swank Ritz Tower might seem evidence of prosperity. Actually it is an eleemosynary institution, well-endowed by people who are interested in providing people all over the world with the Word in their native Worrora, K'Pelle, Cakchiquel, Zapotec, Mpongwe...