Distressing Captain Kidd episode and city notes
A New York Day by Day column recounts Captain Kidd escaping a torn upper deck screen, then a portrait of Miss Ethel Hood as an emerging sculptor, plus remarks on Radio City's elevator crews and career ladders in broadcasting. It notes ongoing city projects and social tidbits including Texan gardenias and Eric S. Pinker.
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New York
Captain Kidd
Chas. Driscoll Town
Annie
Ethel Hood
Pittsburgh
Radio City
RCA
31St Street
Newark Airport
Holland Tunnel
City of New York
Central Aviation
Texas
Pettie Butt
Loraine
Grover Whalen
Eric S. Pinker
Manhattan
English literary agent jailed for two and a half years
The piece notes a judge jailed for two and a half years for stealing from clients. Pinker, an Englishman and son of James B. Pinker, ran a literary agency famed for probity while lavishly spending others’ funds. E Philipps Oppenheim is cited as the author who documented the agent’s embezzlement.
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Pinker
James B. Pinker
E. Philipps Oppenheim
McNaught Syndicate, Inc
Gossip Columnist Tarred Swears Out Warrants in Virginia
Count Igor Cassini a Washington gossip columnist sought arrests of Ian Montgomery Colin Montgomery and Alexander Calvert alleging tar and feathering and beating in retaliation for stories in Petit Point Cassini says five assailants lured him from a Warenton Country Club dance after damaging his car and threats of emasculation noted Cassini is grandson of former Russian ambassador Arturo Cassini.
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Warrenton
Igor Cassini
Washington
Virginia
Cassini
Arturo Cassini
United States
Ian Montgomery
Colin Montgomery
Alexander Calvert
Petit Point
Washington Times Herald
Northern Virginia
Warrenton Country Club
Coughlin Attacks Neutrality Bill in Detroit Address
Father Charles E. Coughlin denounced the proposed neutrality legislation as steering the United States toward war and dictatorship. He warned the bill would make Roosevelt lord of the world and urged listeners to petition Senators to support only neutrality free of entanglements and centralized power.
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Detroit
Charles E. Coughlin
United States
Roosevelt
Coughlin
Will Take Health Exams Tonight
Members of Four-H Clubs in Lorain County meet at Wellington High School for preliminary health examinations under the county Four-H health program. Dr. F. R. Dew, the county health commissioner, conducts the exams as part of the 1939 effort.
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Lorain County
Wellington High School
F. R. Dew
Riot at Watchtower Society Meeting in Madison Square Garden
Five persons were charged with assault after a riot at the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society meeting in Madison Square Garden. The disturbance broke out during J. R. Rutherford’s address to about 18,000 spectators. Eggs were thrown, and canes and fists swung as police ejected the troublemakers.
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New York
Watchtower Bible and Tract Society
Madison Square Garden
J. R. Rutherford
Society
Hitler
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Watchtower Society
Lumonla
Holland
Work
Middle Ave
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