Word: y
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Y. C. stewards lugged the plaque back to the clubhouse, and for all the thousands of words which have been printed about it before and since, relatively few people know what the much disputed Harmsworth Trophy looks like...
...Postmaster General James Aloysius, whose brother Thomas L. is Sheriff of Rockland County, N. Y. Last week Rockland County's Sheriff Farley went down to the basement of his jail, turned off the heat in the adjacent County Building because the County Board had fired seven of his jail janitors...
...Cuba soldiers, miners and Communist agitators heckled Manager Fred Northcross of Bethlehem Steel's Daiquiri Mines until he shouted: "We are closing down-permanently!" In Havana harassed U. S. Ambassador Sumner Welles felt obliged to deny rumors that he was hatching a conspiracy to oust President Grau y San Martin in favor of sly, bearded General Mario G. Menocal, onetime President of Cuba (1913-21). General Menocal deceived nobody when he proclaimed: "I probably have less personal ambition than any man in Cuba...
When Col. Clarence Marshall Young resigned last spring as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics the new Administration abolished his job. His work was divided among five men under Assistant Secretary of Commerce Ewing Y. Mitchell who admittedly knows nothing about aviation. Sooner or later the Aeronautics Branch had to have a head man, and no appointive job at the Capital was subject to fiercer competition. Leading candidates were Rex Martin, Wartime flyer, onetime secretary to Illinois' Representative Keller; Major J. Carroll Cone, Wartime flyer, good friend and campaign helper of Arkansas' Senator Robinson; and Eugene L. Vidal...
Acting President Edward Ellery of Union College (Schenectady, N. Y.) summoned to the 138th annual opening exercises not only his students and faculty but also Union's trustees, janitors, stenographers, secretaries, groundsmen, dormitory matrons, charladies, cooks and dishwashers. He informed them that they were all "agencies for the accomplishment of Union's distinctive aim, the intellectual advancement of youth...