Unsung New Yorkers Portraits of City Life
A fragmented feature profiles many New York characters from diverse walks. It lists a tant driver, a steel magnate’s widow, an editor, an Eight Avenue bus driver, a harbor diver, an architect, florists, a drama critic, a Ming ware expert cop, a novelist, a dentist, a satirical schoolteacher, a retired broker, an orchestra conductor, a theatrical photographer, a famous actor, a TV writer director producer actor wearing a red fez, a sign painter who dislikes mail box snakes, a former elevator girl turned costume designer, a jealous wife of a Western actor, a wealth jeweler, a socialite opposing black tie, a newspaper man famed for a black knit tie, a corner-street news seller’s wife, a subway motorman with Shakespeare, and the giant New York newspaper that ran Valentino on page 27.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Connecticut
Eigth Avenue
New York
New York Harbor
Hudson River
Stern
Ming Ware
Stone-Mason
Social Register
Smartest Women Listed By Editors Of Encyclopedia
New York editors of the Book of Knowledge release a list of the world s 12 smartest women led by Eleanor Roosevelt. The compiled roster includes Mme V Pandit Bette Davis Clare Boothe Luce Lise Mertner Helen Hagan Douglas Anne O Hara McCormick Margaret Mead Mrs Ogden Reid Dorothy Thompson and Margaret Webster. Also noted are portraits of people described with witty signoffs in a New Year message.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Book of Knowledge
Eleanor Roosevelt
Encyclopedia
Roosevelt
United States
Bette Davis
Dorothy Shaver
Lord & Taylor
Clare Boothe Luce
Lise Mertner
Helen Gahagan Douglas
California
Anne O’hare McCormick
The
New York Times
Margaret Mead
Ogden Reid
New York Herald Tribune
Dorothy Thompson
Margaret Webster
Red Cross Aids 228000 Victims After 330 Disasters
Last year the Red Cross aided about 228000 people affected by 330 disasters across the region. The organization provided shelter, food, and emergency medical support, coordinating relief efforts with local partners and volunteers.
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Red Cross
Fateful fifty years 1900 1949 events of 1921 year summary
1921 saw a severe industrial slump with unemployment rising from 3,743,000 to 5,735,000 by August. Harding called an unemployment conference and Congress ratified a war ending treaty with Germany. The ZR-2 explosion killed 62, including 17 sailors, while Mussolini rose to dictator. Hirohito became regent and arms limit talks opened in Washington. The Giants beat the Yankees in the World Series, and disarmament dominated the year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harding
United States Senate
Germany
England
U. S. Navy
Benito Mussolini
Italy
Prince Hirohito
Japan
Washington
New York Giants
New York Yankees
Bavaria
Adolf Hitler
Erich Ludendorff
National Socialists
Hitler
Spain
Primo Rivera
Camden
S. C
Ruhr
Warren G. Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Tokyo
Yokohama
Father Of 6 Killed Resisting Arrest
In Pine Grove West Virginia police shot and killed Roy Freeland, 42, the father of six, as he resisted arrest on hunting law violations. Prosecutor W E Lemon said Freeland was known to be armed. officers warned him to leave. He stepped outside with a wooden stick and was fatally wounded by an instant burst of gunfire. Also noted is Red Cross volunteers totaling 20,000 monthly aiding VA patients in 113 facilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pine Grove
W. Va
Roy Freeland
Wetzel County
W. E. Lemon
Freeland
Ed Morgan
Red Cross
Lemon
Prisoner escapes jail as off duty deputy forgets door
Under-sheriff Ben Moss forgot to lock a cell door at a Clinton Oklahoma jail allowing Chester Kephart to walk out. He returned home to shave his beard, explaining he did not run away and that the incident ended satisfactorily with his return.
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Clinton
Okla
Ben Moss
Chester Kephart
Kephart
Armed forces received large loan total in millions
Members of the armed forces received 2 670 000 dollars in loans. The report lists the total as 2 million 670 thousand dollars, detailing the distribution among service members and the lending program involved.
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Armed Forces
The
Red Cross
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WPDA
Gable
Valentino
Rodolfo Guglielmi
Rudolph Valentino
Polyclinic Hospital
Westchester
Plas
Editors
McNaught Syndicate, Inc
Likly - Rockett
Sear-Roebuck CO
William Ritt
Central Press
Great Britain
France
Knickerbocker Theater
U. S
Hampton
Herrin
Til
Teapot Dome
Bobby Franks
Chicago
Nathan Leopold
Richard Loeb
Dayton
Tenn
John T. Scopes
Clarence Darrow
William Jennings Bryan
Scope
Bryan
Missouri
Dinons
Indiana
Ohio
Belgium
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Pittsburgh Pirates
Washington Senators
President Coolidge
Nellie Tayloe
Ross
Miriam
Ma) Ferguson
Wm. Jennings
Clarence
Darrow
Paint & Wallpaper Co
Court St
Minnesota
Elyria
Chronicle-Telegram
Elyria Dairies
Ealright
Lake Ave
Clark ST
Ewse
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