Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile one of the 73 plotters was discovered in New York in the person of suave Octavio Seigle, founder of the Cuban Nationalist Party, now prudently selfexiled. Mario Seigle, a brother of Octavio, is general manager of the Chase National Bank in Havana. Francis, another brother, is president of the Banco del Comercio...
...Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow, on his recent visit to Washington, certainly did not give Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg any reason to think that Mexico was on the brink of revolution. Curiously enough, the only U. S. daily which let this indiscreet admission into cold type was New York's arch-Republican Herald-Tribune...
...great of the speaking stage is another achievement of the amazing Miss Le Gallienne. Nazimova was born in the Crimea in 1879. Her cultured parents sent her to Moscow to study music, eventually to take up drama as a pupil of Stanislavsky. She excelled almost immediately. She reached New York in 1905 with a Russian company that played East Side theatres and eventually stranded...
Emmett Lawrence was always on call, a rare and curious technician. He went to perform his unadvertised handiwork in most of the large Eastern cities. Among his placements were the two lions which crouch before the entrance of the New York Public Library. During 30 years of work, he never broke or marred a statue...
...days of trial, 590,000 words of testimony and 14 hours of deliberation by the jury, the Manhattan trial of Sir Joseph Duveen came, last week, to naught. Grey as the dawn in which they appeared, the jurymen reported a deadlock. Justice William Harman Black of the New York Supreme Court thanked and discharged them...