Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, Colyumist Walter Winchell of the New York Daily Mirror reported that Biographer Winkler's "confidential, unimpeachable" source on Rockefeller data was Mrs. Anne Urquhart Stillman...
...American and English governments. Arriving at Acapulco, the English despatch agent and the American sought sleeping accommodations, but later on the American arose, and hiring every mule and burro available, left Acapulco, leaving no means of transportation for the English Agent. Crossing Mexico, a steamer to New York was available, and the despatches of Prime Minister Judd reached England in advance of the Paulet des patches. England disavowed the action of Cap tain Paulet, and the English Admiral Thomas was sent to restore the Hawaiian flag, which ceremony took place in the plaza now known as Thomas Square. Mrs. Wilder...
...Alfred Emanuel Smith's,† has no notable bumps or bulges. ¶ President Hoover last week accepted the resignation of Ben F. Wright as auditor of the Philippine Islands, appointed Maj. General Creed ¶ Hammond to succeed him. Also appointed was Robert Ridgeway, Chief Engineer of the New York Board of Transportation, as a U. S. delegate to the World Engineering Congress in Tokyo next October. ¶ A caller at the White House: Minnesota's Governor Theodore Christiansen. His message to President Hoover: The northwest is dissatisfied with the tariff bill, will make trouble at the polls unless...
...York Harbor, opposite where the Hudson and East Rivers meet, lies diminutive Governor's Island, known to military men as Fort Jay. Ceded to the U. S. in 1800, it was once a prime factor in Manhattan's defense. Iron cannon balls fired from it could repulse enemy ships riding up the harbor under full sail. Time brought changes in defense methods, supplied mines, air corps, long-range coast artillery out at Sandy Hook, left Fort Jay a quaint military relic with restful officers' homes, trim lawns, untrafficked roads, under the towered shadow of lower Manhattan...
Congressman LaGuardia differentiated between the proposed air terminal where planes would only land and leave with passengers and mail, and an airport where planes would be housed. New York has many an airport on its fringe, no air terminal in its centre...