Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York's Congressman Fish would have the U. S. purchase all British possessions around the Caribbean, on the theory that they are nothing but smugglers' nests...
...King-Emperor approved the appointment of his second son, Prince Albert, Duke of York, to be Lord High Commissioner of the Church of Scotland, an office bestowed in 1924 by the then Labor Prime Minister, James Ramsay MacDonald, on one James Brown, a prac-ticing coal miner...
...exactly, by announcing that the Bremen and Europa would be "five-day boats."* Goaded, Herr Stimming barked: "I mean that the Bremen and the Europa will cross from America to England within five times 24 hours ! They will reach Germany within six times 24 hours after they leave New York." Only the Bremen is now left to make such a record six-day crossing to Germany in 1929-all other ships on that run now take nine days and upwards. Damage to the Europa-at first believed a total loss-was eventually found, last week, to involve only...
...battered old Stanley Cup, emblematic of the hockey championship, passed to the Boston Bruins last week when they defeated the New York Rangers in the final play-off series, in two straight games. The Bruins had won the American section league championship and defeated Les Canadiens, Canadian section champions. The Rangers in two play-off series defeated the New York Americans and the Toronto Maple Leafs, then lost to the Bruins...
...tall women, thin men and fat women, tattooed men and bearded women, ordinary men and ordinary women. The train has come from Sarasota, Fla., where all winter the Circus has hibernated like the strange animal it is. It has arrived in The Bronx, northernmost borough of New York. A day or two later it is quartered in a huge new coliseum. The crowd has gathered. The boys are selling pink drink. There is a hush. Alfred Emanuel Smith mounts a chair, blows a gold whistle. All the men and women who have piled off the train in the dusk parade...