Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Praise from the arch-Democratic New York World: "Washington is a centre of news . . . because a quick-witted and aggressive executive is plainly...
...Prison congestion worried State as well as U. S. executives. The New York World made a survey of the 22 largest prisons in the U. S. outside New York, received reports that 15 of them were "dangerously overcrowded." The percentage of population over capacity in important local prisons was: Indiana State Prison, 79%; Eastern Penitentiary, Pennsylvania, 77%; Nebraska State Penitentiary, 61%; Missouri State Prison, 42%; Rhode Island State Penitentiary, 31%; Kentucky State Prison, 31%; Maryland State Prison...
...when she telephoned from Washington to California for moral support after she had been lampooned last summer as a religious incendiary (TIME, Aug. 12). So she revealed in the first of a now-it-can-be-told series of articles for a newspaper syndicate headed by the New York Times. In the same article she discussed, revealed something about the "much-heralded" speech to Methodists, at Springfield, Ohio, which brought the lampooning upon...
Manhattan papers were prompt in harassing college professors for answers which were quickly printed. An exception was the New York Mirror, gum-chewers sheet, which decided to print the questions and answers under the caption "Ediquests" at the announced rate...
...answers used here were obtained by the New York Telegram from four Columbia professors...