October 22: ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
ON THIS DAY IN 1916, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “In Amboy street, a few steps off Pitkin avenue, stands a three-story stucco building. It is Mrs. Margaret Sanger’s Birth Control Clinic. It is almost in the heart of the congested and tenemented Brownsville section — Amboy street being a block west of Hopkinson avenue — where birth control is not part of the obvious. The two upper floors of the building are occupied as ‘flats.’ The ground floor was formerly a store. Now its only sign is a number plate — 46 — and a brief notice saying that the hours are from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. The white curtained windows give no hint of clinical occupation, and it took the police more than a week to discover what was what — namely, that here was living Mrs. Margaret Sanger, once at odds with the Federal statutes for sending prohibited literature through the mails, apparently bidding defiance to the police and the laws of the Empire State by disseminating information of an unlawful character.”
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ON THIS DAY IN 1933, Eagle columnist Carl F. Elliott wrote, “What has become of technocracy, whose high priest predicted the collapse of the price system and the rest of the economic structure as a catastrophe which was due to have taken place about this time? One does not hear much about them. Has technocracy gone out of existence? If not, what do its leaders say about the present situation and their predictions? The answer is technology is still functioning — not at Columbia University, but with headquarters in a midtown office building. And have its leaders reneged on their predictions? No. They insist that their predictions are being fulfilled, and that the collapse will take place at a date slightly different from the original one, the change being made necessary by the artificial restoratives to the economic system by the administration at Washington. ‘By October, 1934, the present revival expedient will have failed and twenty million people will be idle by 1934.’ So speaks Howard Scott, the high priest of technocracy. Political maneuvers cannot circumvent the effects on the economic system of the development of the machine with its vast productive capacity, and its diminishing capacity for employing labor, declares Scott.”
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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’.