New York City’s Old World Charm and Street Anecdotes
A sprawling tour of Manhattan and nearby riverside nooks details Wall Street yards, Thames Street echoes, and Madison Square Garden secrets. It notes the Telephone Company cafeteria on West Street, St Paul’s Church’s beacon, Cloisters views of the George Washington Bridge, and portside quirks from Bowery markets to Chinatown cellars. It also references notable figures, hotels, and scenes from Harlem to Maiden Lane, with sardonic asides on city life and a capsule riff on a historical FBI raid and Prohibition era jokes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Wall Street
Telephone Company
West Street
Thames Street
London
Jessel
Madison Square Garden
St. Paul's Church
Urosdway
DL. S
Washgton
G. Washington Bridge
Port Urgan
Cong
Helmand
Pillman's
Suit Street
Hudson
Rhine
Danube
Tmaide
Chinatown
Pluan
Central Park
Jlarlem
J.P. Morgan
Maiden Lane
Bowery Towel Market
Canal and Wesler
Hapsburg
55Th Street
New York City
Country Press of America a Vital Factor in Holding the Home Front
Elmo Scott Watson surveys how the country press backed the war effort after Pearl Harbor. Editors promoted war bonds, morale boosts, and troop support, publishing honor rolls, sending papers to servicemen, and organizing scrap drives while editors personally contributed to defense tasks and labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Country Press of America
Elmo Scott Watson
Western Newspaper Union
Wren
Pearl Harbor
Raymond B. Howard
London
Ohio
National Editorial Association
Roosevelt
United Press
United Nation
America
White House
Newspaper Association Managers, Inc
Country Press of
Country Press
War Department
Alaska
Greenland
Africa
New Guinea
Red Cross Brood Bank
New York
New Jersey
Virginia
Florida
Flying Minute Men sustain Civil Air Patrol in wartime
Washington column profiles the Civil Air Patrol with 68,000 volunteers flying single engine planes along U S coasts. They pressed for bombing gear, endured shortages, and claim submarines spotted by CAP observers were sunk. Army resistance cited. Also notes Japanese fishing in Aleutians and a wartime wagoner view of presidential contact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Civil Air Patrol
United States
Army
WPS
Wariime
Douths
War Department
CAP
Follett Bradley
Army Air Corps
Atlantic
Scrap drives by rural presses aid war materials effort
Rural America led by the Pri organized scrap collections last year. Metals such as iron steel copper lead and zinc filled piles. Editors served as salvage leaders publicizing campaigns and aiding the drive with practical work. The record of small towns and hamlets shows inspiring patriotic effort in gathering printing presses type furniture and other metal items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Country Press
Florida
Gen
Douglas MacArthur
Gen. MacArthur
New York
Kansas
California
Country Press of America
America
He Ate His Own Words But Cooked Them First
Grimod de la Reyniere, famed French gourmet who died in 1838, once ate his own book A Manual of Gastronomy after cooking it to prove a quip about how you eat. Nearly 300 years earlier Theodore Reinking faced punishment by King Christian IV of Denmark for democratic ideas, choosing to tear up his book and swallow the scraps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grimod de la Reyniere
Theodore Reinking
Christian IV
Denmark
Tobacco as morale booster for service members
Medical officers note tobacco aids morale in the armed forces and surveys show it as a favorite gift among soldiers. The ad suggests gifting a pound of Prince Albert tobacco to friends or relatives in Army, Navy, Marines, or Coast Guard who roll their own or smoke a pipe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army
Navy
Marines
Coast Guard
Prince Albert
Also Mentioned on This Page
FBI
Tough Touhy
Basil Banghart
Chicago
John Edgar Hoover
C-Man
Mussy
Banghart
Mr. Hoover
Plesse
Cale
National Press Club
Secret Service
OPA
Averell Harriman
Winant
London Post
Defense Councils
Aittle
Ite
Washington, D. C
Interior Department
Aleutian Islands
Japan
Joe Eastman
The
Pri
Sss
Col
Wepersvers
Burdett
Kan
Vernon Center
Minn
Elburn
Stanton
Iowa
Silver Lake
Ind
Miica
Essues Mellott
Ripley
Okla
Washington Gladden
Grove's
Unir
GROVE
Groves
Sir W. Temple
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