Composite piece about how two federal agents raided a speakeasy, or at least considered it one and carried out the raid with a sledge hammer and broadaxe. …
Best New Yorker Articles of 1932
Explore 48 featured picks from The New Yorker's 1932 issues.
48 picks · 48 issues · Top author: Alva Johnston (13)
Most featured section: Profiles
Featured Picks
Profile of George W. Olvany, once Tammany leader and who resigned suddenly on March. 15, 1929. He had just met with disfavor from his party after writing …
Profile of James Joy Johnston, boxing promoter who was appointed as assistant to the president of the Madison Square Garden, William F. Carey and its …
Profile of William Travers Jerome who along with Roosevelt and Bryan in 1906 was one of the three best known men in America. Now, twenty-five years later, …
Tells of the Olympics that are being held at the Lake Placid Club which was originally started by Melville Dewey as a health resort. Here amidst the …
Profile of James Speyer, banker and president of the Speyer & Company. Tells of his career as financial head, his marriage to Ellin Prince, and his various…
Profile of Jim Londos, Greek wrestler and world champion. On night of November 17, 1931, Londos threw Garibaldi in forty-six minutes and forty seconds. The…
REPORTER about the Interborough Rapid Transit Company subway which is controlled from the three-story stucco building at 147th St. and 7th Ave. Mr. …
Tells about the private gymnasium of Isadore L. Winters in a Park Avenue Hotel. He used to be a champion wrestler and coach at Yale. He is known for …
Profile of Lieut-Commander Rosendahl(Charles E.) who has had more hours aboard lighter-than-air craft to his credit than any other American flier and who …
Profile of Richard Jaeckel, the furrier and some facts about the fur business in New York for the past quarter of a century. Like John Jacob Astor, Richard…
Visit to the scene of the student's strike at Columbia University. It was the result of the recent expulson of the editor of their college publication,…
Tells of the houseparty evangelist, Reverend Frank Buchman who started his soul-saving career at Cambridge where he was known as the Old Moral Uplift. He …
Tells of Nicholas M. Scheneck, and his brother Joe and the story of their careers, business interests, etc. Came from a poor family of seven, and started …
Profile of Stanley Norris, nee Stanislaus Naruszewicz who is an expert window-cleaner. He is a fatalist and a Pole and despite the fact that an average of …
REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to the takeoff of the Maryland Hunt Cup running (the thirty-ninth), and description of the race as viewed by an onlooker. …
Profile of Bernard E. Smith, the financier and the one of the best-known bears of Wall Street. Describes some of his important speculative manouevers. He …
Profile of the criminal lawyer, Samuel S. Leibowitz who out of 78 men charged with murder in the first degree; his record is 77 acquittals; one …
Profile of Samuel Liebowitz, crimanal lawyer. Tells some more about his courtroom methods. They are broad and direct. He laughs and the jury laughs with …
Profile of Elsa Schiaparelli, whose entry into dressmaking was an accident. It came when after a five year trial of American life, she was still testing …
Tells of the biggest retailing department store, Klein's on Union Square and some interesting facts about it and the man that is its owner, S. Klein. …
Tells of John Hays Hammond, Jr., an inventor who had done considerable work in the field of radio, and developed many instruments that deal with remote …
Composite profile of a man who has lost his restaurant on account of the Volstead Act. Recently, enforcement crashed down on him like a ton of bricks, …
Describes the effect brought about by Frank Hague, the Democratic boss and Mayor of Jersey City who turned the Democratic convention upside down. He ruined…
PROFILE of Daniel Carter Beard, founder of the Boy Scouts of America. Mr. Beard is the author of "The American Boy's Handy Book"; "How To Camp Without …
An uncommon coincidence restores order to the universe in this Shouts & Murmurs story from 1932.
Tells of Dr. Thomas Darlington who has been six years the Commissioner of Health in New York. Describes his life which has been one of exuberance and …
REPORTER AT LARGE. Some more details on how the Knickerbocker Village was bought up by Fred F. French in dummy companies. Despite the fact that he was in …
Profile of Martin W. Little, the spellbinder and oratorical lawyer who used all his persuasive eloquent powers in convincing the jury that his client is …
Profile of James B. Pond who is the man behind the Pond Bureau, the boss impresario of the lecture racket, and the only candidates for greatness he …
Tells more about James B. Pond, the platform impresario who uses showmanship to make lecturing pay. The two men whom he was never able to lure on to the …
Visit to the Jewish Conciliation Court which is located at 264 Madison Street where the various cases of the Hebrew rase are arbitrated and settled without…
Visit to the headquarters of the Communist Party of America located at 48-50 East Thirteenth Street, and some interesting facts about the party, the …
Tells about the photograph collection of old theatrical pictures that Albert Davis has at 936 East 12th Street, Flatbush, Brooklyn. Thousands of other …
Tells of Harry Content, one of Wall Street's leading magicians'. He is one of the smoothest and fastest-working jugglers of the Street. Gives same …
Tells of Joseph Lewis, who has made a business of Atheism making it pay. His unholiness, as his admirers call him, has a thriving mail-order business in …
Visit to Geneva, the city where the second Disarmament conference is being held. Delegates do not go there to enjoy themselves, but to confer and to disarm…
PROFILE of Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff, who was deported from America this May and placed in jail at Grasse, France, for swindling …
PROFILE of Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff, who was deported from America this May and placed in jail at Grasse, France, for swindling …
PROFILE of Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff, who was deported from America this May and placed in jail at Grasse, France, for swindling …
REPORTER AT LARGE about some of the issues that the country will have to face if the Eighteenth Amendment is repealed. There is the conflict of interest …
Satire on a man who spends his whole life looking for errors in other people's work. He makes a career of it. He died at the height of his career after…
Profile of Gene Buck, the president of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. He controls and corners the supply of popular and jazz …
Tells about the tattooing business in Chatham Square which has been very bad lately on account of the depression, and some of the men who practise the art.…