Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Recent example: New York-New Jersey covering the Port of New York's Development. † Three largest oil states: Texas, California, Oklahoma...
...wrong about Al Smith. . . . My old man will give me hell, but I can't be sticking by him all the time. . . . Papa is a two-gun man. . . ." Escaping Senator Connally's sober supervision, Junior set forth to inspect some of New York's 32,000 speakeasies.- He came to no good, bringing up in a police station whence he had to be rescued by his father's secretary, J. L. Thornton, who bustled him to the capital. Senator Heflin awaited his boy's homecoming on the station platform. Instead of "hell," he, a fond...
...Estimate furnished by New York's Police Commissioner Grover Whalen...
...Prosperity' of yours." said the General Director last week in his suite at Manhattan's Ambassador. "Take bathrooms for instance. Extr'ord'nary how little your hotel men spend on bathrooms! They tell me one really can't pay over $1,500 in New York for a bathroom with the finest standard fittings. Now in London what do you suppose we have to pay? Not less than ?1,000, or almost 5,000 of your dollars!" Though obviously keen to plunge into the riddles of "Prosperity" and "Standardization," tall, snowy-haired Connoisseur George Reeves-Smith...
Philip Mohan of New York was the love-fighter. He is redhaired, freckled, and as Irish as boiled potatoes. Contrary to all romantic tradition Philip ("Red") Mohan comes not from the Lower East but the Upper West Side. Since "Red" Mohan flew a rattling "Jenny" plane from Juarez, a fortnight ago, to the rebel forces in Chihuahua with 400 Ibs. of nitroglycerine in the cockpit, a cigaret between his lips, and a pint of tequila (cactus wine) on his hip, he has been a hero to the rebels. Black-eyed wenches smile at him in the plaza of an evening...