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Editor Nathan first took his plan to O'Neill, for the first time in his life saw O'Neill get excited. Then he lined up the others. The editors are unsalaried, hold conferences in two uptown speakeasies, hope to have profits to share. Contributors are paid 1? a word...
...will do you good." shouted he, "because you'll have something to do besides sitting around feeling sorry for yourselves. I believe it will make some other people worry. What will it look like to the people uptown to see 20,000 men doing squads right? And you're going to do it if I have to detail 500 military police to force you! This...
...mass-meeting of Allied Drys in an uptown church brought a turnout...
This was not the Depression's last paradox. Mrs. Polly Lauder Tunney was similarly begging uptown on the steps of the Public Library. Over the radio, trim Mrs. Charles Hamilton Sabin, wife of the board chairman of potent Guaranty Trust Co., was exhorting a national audience,. So was intense little Mrs. Archibald Roosevelt. Out on Long Island and up in the fashionable suburbs of Westchester and Connecticut, scores and scores of well-dressed ladies, wives of substantial, responsible businessmen, were earnestly parading the streets and highways in their family automobiles, blaring their horns steadily with large blue & white banners...
...cloistered little world of girls' private schools in Manhattan, recent years have brought marked changes. Two of the most exclusive, Miss Chapin's and Brearley, have expanded into large plants uptown on the far East Side. Oldest (40 years) and most aristocratic Miss Spence's School has been endowed, incorporated, dropped the Miss. It too has acquired a big new uptown plant at gist Street near Fifth Avenue. Founder Clara B. Spence has been dead nine years. Her successors, Miss Charlotte S. Baker (1923-29) and Miss Helen Clarkson Miller (1929-32) resigned before attaining comparable fame...