Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. James Roosevelt, Harvard College junior, son of Governor and Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York; to Betsy Cushing of Brookline, Mass., daughter of Dr. Harvey Cushing, leading U. S. surgeon and 1925 Pulitzer Prize biographer (The Life of Sir William Osier...
Married. George Herman ("Babe") Ruth of Manhattan, potent baseballer (New York Yankees) and Mrs. Claire Hodgson, widowed showgirl; in Manhattan, at 5:45 a. m. The first Mrs. Ruth, long estranged from her husband and living with a dentist of Watertown, Mass., was recently burned to death (TIME...
Seasoned observers sympathized with the Tribune's irate editor, but pointed out that Soviet Russia is too big to be bluffed, even by the "World's Greatest Newspaper." The only practicable means of getting out Soviet news is that employed by Walter Duranty of the New York Times. Day after day, with infinite patience and good humor, he files despatches which cost his paper a great deal, and only occasionally contain really big news. By carrying something every day and ingratiating himself after long years with the Soviet government, patient Walter Duranty is able to get past...
...Death should come soon and suddenly to three men-George V. Edward of Wales, the Duke of York-England would have another Virgin Queen Elizabeth. Last week, romping in a yellow frock, the Princess Elizabeth passed her third birthday. She does not know that she is but three removes from the Throne; in fact she has only very recently discovered that she is a "P'incess." It is barely a fortnight ago that she knocked with chubby fist upon a door, and when her mother called "Who's there?" answered in an important little voice, "Lilybet...
...absent speakers in distant lands, on distant seas. During the long-distance conversations there was heard the loud popping of a champagne cork. No illegal pop was popped, however, as the report proceeded from the Berlin hotel of Ernst Filsinger, head of the Export Managers' Club of New York. Exporter Filsinger told the delegates that he was very sorry not to be in Baltimore with them. Then he made his champagne cork pop, thus testifying to the miracles of modern science and perhaps to the alleviating circumstances of his absence...