Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York. Into a Plattsburg hospital early one morning last week two U. S. customs patrolmen carried a human body, dumped it on the floor, hurried away without giving any information except that they had "found it in the road." The body had been Arthur Gordon, 22, border rumrunner. Great was the mystery as to this shooting. New York authorities started John Doe proceedings. Then from Collector of Customs John C. Tulloch at Ogdensburg came this explanation...
...editorial departments of publications. But when publishers as a whole feel they are losing ground to the producers, out bursts a larger feud in which the publishers assume a militant defensive against the producers. Such a position was taken last fortnight by the Publishers' Association of New York City, and reported at length in newspaperdom's trade weekly, Editor& Publisher. As is customary at such times, Editor & Publisher talked bitterly about "a growing evil" and a "deluge" and the "mushroom-like growth of free publicity." Then it told of a committee formed by the Association to "stem...
...international affair of first importance. For weeks Rio de Janeiro papers had devoted entire front pages to the daily doings of Miss Brazil (svelte Olga Bergamini De Sa ?TIME, June 10). On the night of the Contest two special wires carried the story from Galveston to New York, thence by direct cable to Buenos Aires where special United Press editors hung over the keyboard to relay the story northward to Rio de Janeiro. Huge crowds were gathered in front of the big Rio newspaper offices to watch returns flashed on the screen...
Elected. Artemus L. Gates, 33, son-in-law of the late Henry Pomeroy Davison of J. P. Morgan & Co.; to be president of New York Trust Co. Harvey Dow Gibson, retiring president, was elected executive committee chairman...
Married. Hiram Edward Manville Jr. of Manhattan and Pleasantville, N. Y., son of the asbestos tycoon; and Ethel Bredt Schniewind. Manhattan socialite; in Manhattan. Married. Laird Shields Goldsborough. Associate Editor (Foreign News) of TIME, to Miss Florence McConaughy of York, England; in Goldsborough Church, Goldsborough, Yorkshire...