Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Able Newsman Walter Duranty, long-time correspondent in Russia for the New York Times, who early this month traveled down the broad Volga, left the river often to visit the interior of the great grain provinces of Samara, Kazan and Saratov. He noted no undue disturbances or signs of starvation and reported last week: "The harvest, instead of fair to medium, may be distinctly above the average if the weather remains favorable. The advocates of rationing claim that . . . it plays a useful role in the socialization policy which the Kremlin is now pushing so actively...
...despite famine fears and fire, Stalin and the Kremlin pursue their plan. Last year they inspired such confidence that International General Electric Co. of New York contracted to the extent of 25 million dollars to electrify the Soviet Union...
Though written by Bide Dudley, chatty theatre editor of the New York Evening World, the play is redundant, filled with burdensome explanations of obvious situations. The predicament of Husband Carter is invested with little or no dramatic dignity. Tripping delicately between silliness and indelicacy, as if performing an egg dance, Richard Gordon gives a deft, sincere but inevitably useless performance as Husband Carter...
Dartmouth College Frank Pierce Carpenter, paper manufacturer LL.D. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Governor of New York LL.D. Harry Bates Thayer, onetime (1919-25) President of American Telephone & Telegraph Co LL.D. Harvey Gushing, surgeon Litt.D. Charles W. Tobey, Governor of New Hampshire A.M. Glasgow University (Scotland) Marie Curie, scientist LL.D. Fritz Kreisler, violinist LL.D...
...social welfare Daniel Guggenheim turned in 1919, when he was 63. To the welfare of aviation he turned two Junes before Lindbergh flew to Paris. His aim was to make aviation a public utility. He gave New York University $500,000 for a School of Aeronautics. Next he established his Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, with $2,500,000 endowment. The Fund has in its two and a half years given $1,200,000 to various aeronautical educational institutions for research and instruction. California and Massachusetts Institutes of Technology and Leland Stanford, Michigan and Washington Universities...