Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...radio concerts for school children. In preparation some 100,000 classrooms have had radios installed and on Friday morning children all over the U. S. will listen for the first time to a new National Symphony Orchestra of 60 players (many of them members of the old New York Symphony) and hear Damrosch lecture on the great composers, their music and the instruments that make...
Familiar indeed are Damrosch faces. There was Dr. Leopold first, a German Jew who fathered them all along with the Oratorio and Symphony Societies of New York. There are his four children-Teacher Frank (head of the Institute of Musical Art, now associated with the Juilliard Foundation); Pianist Clara, married to Violinist David Mannes and running with him the Mannes School of Music; Pianist Elizabeth (Mrs. Henry T. Seymour); Conductor Walter; Conductor Walter's wife who was Margaret Blaine, daughter of the late Senator James G. Blaine; Conductor Walter's four daughters-Alice (Mrs. Pleasants Pennington), Gretchen...
...pontoons, but had one 80-100 h. p. motor (Lindbergh's developed 200 h. p.). Unlike Lindbergh, MacDonald was no veteran air-mailman, parachute-jumper, stuntist. Last May MacDonald made one round trip from England to India, having had 10 hours' previous solo flying. Said the New York World: ". . . harebrained effort . . ."; said the United Press: ". . . a great sporting gesture...
...epidemic. The 58th victim fell sick last week. All caught the disease indirectly from an old man, one Frederick Moersch, carpenter, who had been helping his widowed daughter run a Village ice cream parlor. He is a typhoid carrier, immune to the disease himself, infectious to others. The New York City health department captured him and segregated him on a pest island in East River. He may be kept there for life because he broke his promise to the health department never to work around food which other people might eat. A woman, "Typhoid" Mary Mallon, is also there...
Each city of the U. S., each county, each state, the nation, has its health officers. The most outstanding and efficacious is Surgeon General Hugh S. Gumming of the U. S. Public Health Service. Next to him may be ranked Health Commissioner Matthias Nicoll Jr. of New York State. With him might have been ranked Louis Israel Harris of New York City and Herman Niels Bundesen of Chicago. Both are now out of office-Dr. Harris because he got a better paying job with New York milk suppliers, Dr. Bundesen because he did not truckle sufficiently to Mayor "Big Bill...