"MUSIC-LOVING ROBBERS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY"

RESTAURANT BANDITS WANT MUSIC TO ROB BY

New York City (JFK+50) On March 23, 1926, four robbers held up 70 people, including 35 diners, at the Owl Restaurant located at West 45th Street near Times Square here in New York.

According to Associated Press, four men entered the establishment "with drawn revolvers" ordering the orchestra to play while they took $350 from the cash register and "small amounts" from some patrons.

Police, alerted to the crime in progress by entertainers who went out the back door, took the music-loving bandits into custody.

SOURCE

"Bandits Demand Music as They Rob Cafe Patrons," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., March 23, 1926, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/

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"THE RICH MUST HELP THE POOR"

PRESIDENT KENNEDY RECEIVES 'FAMILY OF MAN AWARD'

New York City (JFK+50) On November 8, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was presented with the Protestant Council of the City of New York's 'Family of Man Award' at the Hilton Hotel.

In accepting the award, the President said...

"The Family of Man can survive differences of race and religion (but) the rich must help the poor.  The industrial nations must help the developing nations and the United States must do better by its foreign aid program."

Mr. Kennedy added, however. that the people of the United States "are not weary in well-doing" and he remained confident that "we shall...reap the kind of world we deserve and deserve the kind of world we will have."

JFK+50 NOTE

The Protestant Council of Churches of the City of New York, now the Council of Churches of the City of New York, was founded in 1895 to work in behalf of Protestant churches in the city.

SOURCES

"JFK Received Family of Man Award 50 Years Ago Today," JFK+50, November 8, 2013, www.jfk50.blogspot.com/

"Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States:  John F. Kennedy, 1963," United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1964.

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"BIGGER & BETTER THAN EVER"

NEVER FEAR NEW YORKERS...NEW YEAR'S EVE RAIDS ON SCHEDULE

New York City (JFK+50) On December 28, 1924, The Sunday Star reports that R.Q. Merrick*, prohibition divisional chief for northern New York and northern New Jersey, says the New Year's Eve raids will be "bigger and better than ever" this year.

Chief Merrick describes New Jersey as "almost impossible to dry up," but the people of New York City will be "greatly disappointed" if we don't conduct the customary raids on New Year's Eve.

*R. Q. Merrick was prohibition administrator of Virginia, South Carolina & North Carolina in 1929.  At that time he supervised 80 prohibition enforcement agents but claimed that it would take up to 4000 to stop liquor traffic.

SOURCE

"Bigger and Better Raids Promised New Year Eve," The Sunday Star, Washington, D.C., December 28, 1924, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/

 

 

Liquor Raid

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