Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mine was quoted correctly. I had no idea, when I consented to give an interview in Walt Whitman's house in Camden (to help raise funds to make it fireproof) that I would be letting myself in for so much unfortunate publicity. No sooner did I reach New York than someone showed me a clipping from the New York World saying that I "mourned for America" (which is just the opposite of my true feelings-I have the most tremendous pride and hopefulness for America) and that I was jailed in Boston. A little while later I received...
...answer many an investigating question and showing few symptoms of real cooperation. Investigators for Irving Trust Co., receivers, quickly discovered that the listed assets of the bank had little meaning. There were bad bonds, bad oil stocks, bad loans. There was a credit of $840,000 against the New York Port Terminal Co., a company which was said not to be operating, if it had ever been formed. Also the brothers had apparently borrowed $404,-995 from their own bank. Thus while Clarke Bros, claimed assets of $5,852-377, the actual value of these assets was figured...
...York State banking law permits private bankers in smaller cities to accept smaller accounts without supervision, the amounts varying with the size of the city...
Last year the British House of Commons vetoed by a large majority a proposal to adopt a new Church of England Prayer Book.† Last week the convocations of Bishops and clergy of Canterbury and York reversed that decision, publicly approved of the new prayer book, delivered what was tantamount to a slap in the face of the British Parliament. At September's Church Assembly, the York and Canterbury resolutions will be submitted for further action, for the possible adoption of the new prayer book...
...Watson, Mrs. L. R. C. (Peggy Saunders) Mitchell, Miss Betty Nuthall. Youngsters passed over: Eileen Bennett, Joan Fry, Joan Ridley. Fight. Because he seemed to have no intention of carrying out an old contract with Arthur Bulow, his onetime manager, Heavyweight Max Schmeling was forbidden to box in New York State by the State Boxing Commission. The Bulow contract called for a fight with Phil Scott, third-rate Britisher. If Schmeling fights Scott he may thereafter fight in New York. If he does not, the Schmeling-Sharkey world's championship fight may be in Detroit, Boston, Montreal, Chicago. Track...