Word: y
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order. He called for the hostess. She promised to bring the manager. When he did not appear. Clergyman Tobias, thoroughly angered, summoned a policeman off the street, made him produce the manager. After an hour's wrangling Channing Tobias, no ordinary clergyman but senior secretary of the Y. M. C. A.'s colored work, stormed out in disgust, sued Horn & Hardart for denying his civil rights...
...last-the Thompson Trophy Race (in which a 300 m.p.h. landplane record was this year's objective). Next in importance, although spectators see only the finish, is the Transcontinental Bendix Trophy Race which raises the curtain. This year's Bendix race, starting from Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y., was a battle between the builders who divided highest honors last year-Z. D. Granville and Wedell-Williams. Granville of Springfield, Mass, is famed for his fat Gee Bee in which Jimmy Doolittle made a world record of 294 m.p.h. Wedell-Williams is a unique combination consisting of one-eyed...
Bussing to Bayonne, N. J. with one suitcase, Winthrop Rockefeller, 21, husky fourth son of John D. Rockefeller Jr., moved into a $4.50 per-week Y. M. C. A. room, began work in the personnel department of a Standard Oil of New Jersey refinery. A Yale junior learning the family business on vacation, he said: "I'm trying to get a look at the way the boys here live. But it's pretty tough because . . . I feel as though I were on exhibition. But I'm learning things and I love...
Married. Pierre Samuel du Pont 3rd, 22, son of Lammot du Pont, board chairman of General Motors Corp. and president of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.; and Jane Holcomb, 19, Waterbury, Conn. socialite; on Fishers Island, N. Y...
...three weeks ago Tanker TN-78, bearing a cargo of molasses, sank in the Mohawk River near Little Falls, N. Y. Few days later the river began to grow white with the bellies of thousands of dead perch, dead carp, dead whitefish. The Conservation Department reported last week that the molasses had glued up the gills through which the perch, carp and whitefish breathed...