MILESTONES: September 29, birthdays for Kevin Durant, Halsey, Lo Bosworth
Brooklyn Today
On this day in 1927, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle front page reported on the search across four U.S. states for a poultry raiser named Willis Beach who went missing after helping to kill Dr. A. William Lilliendahl. A detective found seven witnesses who could provide clues to this mystery. One of the witnesses, an auto dealer, testified that Beach told him he urgently needed a call for “an important job.” … That front page also covered the Eagle’s 17-day coverage campaign to end ambulance chasing by unscrupulous attorneys seeking after clients. A man named Abraham Gatner had come forward with information about attorneys involved in chasing ambulances to seek clients who were victims of injuries. In some cases, the attorneys caused further collisions. Brooklyn Bar Association President Edward J. Byrne declared that ambulance chasing is a crime and said that any attorneys involved in this activity “were scored as unfit members of the legal profession.” A front-page announcement asked attorneys in good standing to request that the Appellate Division appoint a referee to hear Abraham Gatner’s testimony … And Eagle writer William Weer tackled the recent controversy over whether women’s brains were equal to those of men. A woman physician named Dr. Mosher asserted, “We’ve known of equality for 100 years.”
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On this day in 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt hailed the New Deal for Farms as the first issue of the 1936 Presidential election campaign. He cited a $5.3 billion gain in rural incomes. Naming the AAA, or Agricultural Adjustment Act, as a prime aid, Roosevelt said the function of government was “merely to supply the unifying element that the farmers themselves, in their past efforts, found so essential to success.”
Brooklyn Boro
View MoreNew York City’s most populous borough, Brooklyn, is home to nearly 2.6 million residents. If Brooklyn were an independent city it would be the fourth largest city in the United States. While Brooklyn has become the epitome of ‘cool and hip’ in recent years, for those that were born here, raised families here and improved communities over the years, Brooklyn has never been ‘uncool’.