Word: y
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other speaker, William Y. Elliott, professor of Government, discounted the importance of this point as a factor in world peace. He felt, however, that the opposition of the press to domestic policies was not only important, but showed that the country was in a healthy condition...
...patrolmen" constitutes the crucial recommendation for the improvement of the Boston police department made by the Harvard Crime Survey in its volume, "Police Administration in Boston," which is published by the Harvard University Press this week. The book is the work of Leonard V. Harrison, of New York, N. Y., a police expert of many years standing...
Brother John, the president, shuttles about the country attending to business when he is not hiding away in his Vast Valhalla, N. Y. estate or lunching in solitude at the Biltmore. His well-tailored grey clothes and his inevitable moth-winged half ascot tie are recognized at directors meetings of a few great corporations, by occasional A. & P. store managers when he drops in for a chat, but he is very. very seldom heard of by the consuming public. Brother George is not heard of or recognized at all. He sits in his bare office in Manhattan's Graybar Building...
...Beaming with pride, Mrs. William Henry Hays, 57, president of the New York Young Women's Christian Association, stood in the centre of a receiving line at the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, welcomed 1,000 guests to a Y. W. C. A. dinner. To launch a drive for $200,000, proud Mrs. Hays had brought together an imposing array of Great Ladies. Guests of honor were Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, 55, Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow, 61, Mrs. James Roosevelt, 80. Most venerable guest of all was reclusive Mrs. Andrew Carnegie...
...just over an hour a double line of sleek Manhattan socialites, confined by a red plush rope, edged down a long corridor, edged past the receiving line, edged on into the Grand Ballroom for dinner. After dinner Mrs. Morrow made a little speech about the initials Y. W. C. A., thought of all the nice things she could which began with Y (Youth), with W (Wisdom), C (Charity) and A (Alertness). To close the program, 500 Young Women trooped in, presented a pageant of Y. W. C. A. activities...