Word: y
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frank Buchman, Elsie Janis believes in divine guidance. Unlike Oxford Groupers, she thinks of God in military terms - a Commander- in-Chief issuing His inexorable orders from General Headquarters. Last week, as the result of such a G. H. Q. order, Miss Janis used the News of Tarrytown, N. Y., where she owns famed Phillipse Manor (built in 1683), to reveal her plan to dispose of that 15-acre estate, auction off her other effects for local charities later this summer. Wrote Miss Janis to the News editor...
Uniting The Bronx, Manhattan and Queens by means of an enormous steel and concrete Y, the Triborough Bridge represents the biggest single thing New York City has so far got out of the New Deal. The Federal Government lent $35,000,000, gave $9,200,000 towards its construction. Largely because of this heavy stake, President Roosevelt went to New York City last week to dedicate the new bridge. Chief engineer of the Triborough was Othmar Hermann Ammann, who swung the Port of New York Authority's huge George Washington Bridge across the Hudson River. When his turn came...
...essential chain of highways tying the bridge into Long Island's great parkway system and East Side Manhattan traffic. The heart of the Triborough begins with a suspension bridge across Hell Gate to Wards Island, whence the elevated highway turns north to Randalls Island. There occurs the Y's split, one arm reaching across the Harlem River on the world's biggest (but not heaviest) lift bridge to Manhattan, the other crossing The Bronx Kills to the mainland by means of three truss spans...
...East and South are lined up solidly behind us and a great portion of the Middle West as well." So spoke last week neither Republicans nor Democrats but the campaign managers of School Superintendent William Henry Holmes of Mount Vernon, N. Y., candidate for the presidency of potent National Education Association. To choose a new president, to spend five days in exciting talk about their profession, 15,000 U. S. teachers and school officials journeyed to Portland, Ore., for NEA's 74th annual convention...
...Representative Burton L. French of Idaho, Democratic Governor Paul V. McNutt of Indiana, Socialist Norman Thomas, refused to pay to have them broadcast. ¶ Voted to oppose "war and military training," but turned down a resolution condemning the Reserve Officers Training ¶ Censured the school boards of Valhalla N. Y., Alexandria, Ind., Corunna, Mich., Lock Haven State Teachers College, Pa. for "unwarranted" dismissal of teachers. ¶ Elected not confident Superintended Holmes but Superintendent Orville Clyde Pratt of Spokane, Wash., as NEA's president for 1936-37. Big, solemn, bespectacled President-elect Pratt, at 55 ai authority on school finance...