MILESTONES: September 21, birthdays for Stephen King, Nicole Richie, Faith Hill
Brooklyn Today
On this day in 1938, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle front page reported that Czechoslovakia had ceded to Hitler’s demand for partitioning the land, and surrendered Slovakia to Nazi forces, after “irresistible pressure” from Great Britain and France to do so. Czechoslovakia ceased to exist at 6:55 p.m. (1:55 p.m. Brooklyn time) that day …Meanwhile the grandfather of current NY State Assemblymember Joseph Lentol won a three-way primary the day before, on Sept. 20, 1938. Three generations of Lentols have served in New York politics. The Eagle reported on that Sept. 21 front page that a Joseph Lentol made a comeback by beating Dr. Joshua A. Friedman by 200 votes. That Joseph Lentol —the grandfather — was a Democratic Party district boss at the time of the article published. He was also a New York state assemblyman from Kings County 14th District, 1919-20; and member of New York Democratic State Committee, starting in 1930. There is no published information on his death date or burial location. The middle generation, Edward S. Lentol (1909-81) served on the New York State Assembly, New York State Senate and as a justice on the New York State Supreme Court. He was still active on the bench at the time of his death. Now in 2017, Assemblymember Joseph Lentol the younger (D-District 50), serves Greenpoint, Williamsburg and Fort Greene.
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On this day in 1934, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published several front-page stories related to the capture of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, the main suspect in the kidnapping and ransom extortion of the Charles Lindbergh baby two years earlier. New Jersey’s Gov. Harry A. Moore called for Hauptmann’s extradition to that state to match Hauptmann to John Doe indictments in 1932 for the murder of a child in New Jersey, the same state where the Lindbergh family resided. Meanwhile, Hauptmann had previously been deported from the United States in 1923. His German hometown labeled him their “bad boy.”