November 19: ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

November 19, 2023 Brooklyn Eagle History

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ON THIS DAY IN 1920, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “After Controller Craig had asked the mayor of New York City to crack Aldermanic President LaGuardia over the head with a gavel; after LaGuardia and Craig and Boro President Curran had stripped the dictionary for violent invectives; after Mayor Hylan had splintered a gavel in beating a jazz tune to a succession of language that ripped in blue streaks through the air, it was officially agreed that the Board of Estimate was in session today.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1922, the Eagle reported, “WASHINGTON, NOV. 18 — Mrs. W.H. Felton, appointed Senator from Georgia, pending election of a successor to the late Senator Watson, arrived here today with the announced intention of obtaining a seat in the Senate if possible, so as to ‘blaze the road for the womanhood of America.’ She added, however, that she was too old to make an aggressive fight for the place to which Walter F. George was elected on Nov. 7. Mr. George was obtaining his certificate of election today at Atlanta and expected to arrive here Monday in time for the convening of the Senate. He has announced his willingness to permit Mrs. Felton to occupy the seat for a single day if that could be done legally. Should Mrs. Felton be sworn in she would be the first woman to sit in the United States Senate. Mrs. Felton, who is 87, made the 780-mile trip from Cartersville, Ga., unaccompanied.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1934, the Eagle reported, “The growing menace of robbers with hair-trigger nerves, who early this morning killed the third Brooklyn shopkeeper in the last five days, inspired a series of emergency orders today from Deputy Chief Inspector Edward A. Bracken. Scowling and emphasizing that the ‘situation is very serious,’ Inspector Bracken made public instructions that radio patrol cars stop all suspicious persons, afoot or in cars, when near stores, ask them to identify themselves and be ready to shoot if necessary. He also issued orders to all inspectors and captains to tell men on post to pay particular attention to stores, though he pointed out that the last two murders occurred when patrolmen on the beats in question were ringing in, and so were obviously on the job.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1938, the Eagle reported, “A special prayer for all victims of racial and religious persecution, stressing the plight of Jews in Germany, will be offered today and tomorrow by millions of Catholics, Protestants and Jews at religious services throughout America. The supplication, a plea for surcease from ‘cruelty and persecution, imprisonment and exile,’ has been written in connection with the Day of Prayer sponsored by the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America and the National Conference of Jews and Christians. Bishop Thomas E. Molloy of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn has instructed the priests of the diocese to pray for the world’s afflicted, and the directors of the Brooklyn Church and Mission Federation have also endorsed the Day of Prayer.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1954, the Eagle reported, “Walter O’Malley, revealing that he receives concrete offers ‘continuously,’ stated today that the Dodgers are ‘not for sale,’ and fired a point-blank ‘no’ to the rumored possibility that the franchise is in danger of moving to another city, particularly Los Angeles. Back in his Montague St. office after a week’s tour of Puerto Rico and Cuba, the Dodger president smiled, ‘If our good fans in Los Angeles want to see our Dodgers, let them come to Ebbets Field next season.’ Insisting there are ‘no present plans’ to sell or move the Dodgers, O’Malley did admit, ‘What the future holds, I don’t know. We’re interested in our attendance problems and our lack of parking facilities.’ O’Malley also admitted that a possible Dodger franchise shift, presumably to Los Angeles, has been ‘explored very fully’ for future reference. Explaining all the concrete offers he’s received for the Dodgers since taking over as club president in the fall of 1950, O’Malley said, ‘Somebody is trying to buy the Dodgers every month as long as I can remember.’”

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NOTABLE PEOPLE BORN ON THIS DAY include talk show host Dick Cavett, who was born in 1936; media mogul Ted Turner, who was born in 1938; fashion designer Calvin Klein, who was born in 1942; former NFL wide receiver Ahmad Rashad, who was born in 1949; “Star Trek: Voyager” star Robert Beltran, who was born in 1953; Space Shuttle commander Eileen Collins, who was born in 1956; “The West Wing” star Allison Janney, who was born in 1959; “Sleepless in Seattle” star Meg Ryan, who was born in 1961; two-time Oscar-winning actress Jodie Foster, who was born in 1962; “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” star Terry Farrell, who was born in 1963; tap dancer and choreographer Savion Glover, who was born in 1973; Olympic gold medalist Kerri Strug, who was born in 1977; “Star Wars” star Adam Driver, who was born in 1983; and rapper Tyga, who was born in 1989.