Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Soviets. A bimotored all-metal monoplane, Land of the Soviets', flew eastward from Moscow last week to circumnavigate the earth in 40 days. Her crew of five expected to cross Siberia, the northern Pacific along the Aleutian Islands, south to San Francisco, across the U. S. to New York, to Europe via the North Atlantic...
...This summer the Brooklyn Eagle revived the oldtime newspaper practice of printing daily weather maps, less for agriculture than for flying. The feature was popular. The Eagle has been flooded with requests for copies of maps. The New York Evening Post and other large newspapers have followed the Eagle's lead, found weather maps good circulation-getters...
...ever saw. Her charms thus enhanced induced old Isaacs Menken, vocal teacher, to make her a Jewess and his bride. A memory of her first love drove her from Menken's hearth, but later gave morbid ardor to her acting of Lady Macbeth in New Orleans. In New York she became a poetess and the wife of Heavyweight Champion John C. Heenan. Her acting in Mazeppa brought her fame. This was the sensational play wherein, as a Tartar boy, she wore the first boyish bob on the New York stage. The place was the Bowery Theatre, lately burned down...
Appointed. Professor John Shapley, head of the Department of Art of New York University; to be professor and chairman of the Department of Art of the University of Chicago...
Speculators chewed ragged cigars last week, conferred past midnight, lost their sleep. Thursday's stock market had closed strong when the Bank of England did not raise its rediscount rate. Then, late in the afternoon, came announcement that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York had raised its rate from 5% to 6%. Wall Street was caught unprepared. Tycoons rushed to telephones, brokers called up bankers. Ten members of the Stock Exchange were seen leaving a Broad Street building in one nervous, gesticulating group. Long after the dinner hour two Rolls-Royces still waited outside the austere House of Morgan...