Word: y
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME'S phrase was ill-chosen. The Y. M. C. A.'s new general secretary has been a conspicuous enemy of social evils...
...Y. M. C. A.'s Harmon...
Married. Francis V. du Pont, 37. of Wilmington, Del., son of the late Senator Thomas Coleman du Pont; and Janet M. Gram, 24, of Buffalo, N. Y.; in Baltimore. Present was the bridegroom's brother-in-law. Delaware's Governor C. Douglass Buck...
...fire which damaged the Eden Musee,- famed waxworks at Coney Island (N. Y.), funpark, figures of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, James John Walker, Leon Trotsky, John Joseph Pershing, Gaius Julius Caesar, Decimus Junius Brutus, Jean Paul Marat & tub, Henry VIII, Mr. & Mrs. Tom Thumb were melted out of existence. Others who suffered: George Washington (broken nose), Booker Taliaferro Washington (complexion blackened), Charlotte Corday (loss of eyes), Marie Antoinette (decapitated). A fireman was injured, a dog shot, a cat burned to death. Rescued were Watchman Conrad Golly and eight Japanese billiardists...
...prelude to the Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, N. Y. was a month of slush and a series of mishaps on the Mt. Van Hoevenberg bob-sled run. Most calamitous of the accidents was last week's in which four members of the German squad, practicing on their round-runnered Deutschland II, jumped the slide at Shady Corner, going 65 m.p.h., and plunged into an 85-ft. gully. Steersman Fritz Grau, 37-year-old Berlin radio manufacturer, and his crew of three were hospitalized for sprained backs, concussions, lacerations, fractured skulls, broken wrists and shoulders...