Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Arthur Garfield Rays, prominent New York lawyer, will deliver an address at Harvard tomorrow when he speaks at the Liberal Club. 66 Winthrop Street, on the subject. "Civil Liberty in America." The lecture will be at 1.30 o'clock and will be open to all members of the University...
...call the cows home to be milked as the evening sun goes down behind the Kansas hills. Perhaps the twenty-two year old prima donna never enjoyed singing anyhow. It may well have been the lure of the splendor of grand opera costumes that brought the soprano to New York in 1926 at the head of an army of enthusiastic supporters. Suspicions of this nature are strengthened when one recalls that in the statement to the press there is no promise not to appear before the hungry chickens in the garb of Juliet...
...indeed a strong, hand. Strong-handed, Banker Mitchell is also strongwilled. Last week he halted a collapse on the Stock Market, "slapped the Federal Reserve Board squarely in the face," heard Virginia's Senator Glass demand his resignation from the directorate of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, announced the absorption of Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. by his National City, and regained his position (briefly lost by the Guaranty Trust-Bank of Commerce merger) as head of largest U. S. bank...
Died. The Rt. Rev. Charles Henry Brent, 66, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Western New York (Buffalo) ; of heart disease; in Lausanne, Switzerland. He was a Canadian clergy- man's son. Longtime Bishop of the Philippines, he there confirmed John Joseph Pershing and began his zealous campaigning against the opium trade. Later he was chief chaplain of the A. E. F. and president of the World Conference on Faith and Order (Lausanne, 1927). Devout and dignified, he became the dominant U. S. Episcopal clergyman. He believed in world peace and church union, was opposed to Prohibition. Years...
...erroneously stated (TIME, March 18), art editor of Life, weekly funny magazine. Cartoonist Crosby is not, has never been, a staff member of Life. Last week Life announced the appointment of Oscar Odd ("O. O.") Mclntyre, popular syndicate columnist (New York Day by Day), as dramatic critic. He succeeds famed Funster Robert C. Benchley, who leaves, after nine years, to devote himself to the talking cinema. Said departing Critic Benchley: "Any change would be for the better...