Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Market. Commuters on their trains last Friday morning discussed and laid grim bets on how far the Market would fall. The Los Angeles and San Francisco markets, still open on the previous afternoon when the Board's announcement was made, had crashed badly. Six hours ahead of New York, Friday's market at Amsterdam had opened with U. S. Steel plunging downward. To add to the threat of another Black Friday*; was the fact that brokers loans reached a new all time high, over six billion dollars. At the New York Stock Exchange, the gallery was packed with spectators...
What happens to bankers who drive their bank over a cliff and leave depositors 5 cents on the dollar? Last week a Federal and a New York judge, resorting to the novel expedient of holding court in the same room, provided an answer to that question...
...Huntingdon Wright, more famed as "S. S. Van Dine," detective story writer, gave up a murder case because it was outside his jurisdiction as Honorary Police Commissioner of Bradley Beach, N. J. Last week the mystery was taken up by John D. Coughlin, lately ousted as chief of New York City detectives for his failure to solve the Rothstein murder. Quickly tracking nebulous clues, Detective Coughlin caught the driver of the murder car within three days, closed in on the actual murderers. Readers of Van Dine books (The Bishop Murder Case, The Canary Murder Case), are still wondering if bemonocled...
...fire, which he proceeded to do by holding Philadelphia scoreless for four innings while his St. Louis clubmates made three more runs. It was Pitcher Alexander's 373rd winning game in his National League career, breaking the longstanding League record of the late great Christopher Mathewson (New York "Giants...
...Cleveland, Batsman George Herman ("Babe") Ruth of the New York Yankees propelled the 500th home run of his American League career. To a country youth who retrieved the ball he gave $20 and a new ball autographed...