Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Michigan's Yost, in Manhattan last week, was dined by the Sportsmanship Brotherhood, also by the New York Stock Exchange (whose members and employes have teams in nine sports...
...Coolidge has a sincere reverence. Some day, perhaps not far .from now, Calvin Coolidge may reasonably expect to be himself regarded as an Elder Statesman.* It was with unusual pleasure and a fervent handshake, therefore, that he last week welcomed into his office Elder Statesman Elihu Root of New York...
...Long agitated by slavery, the Methodist Episcopal Church, meeting in New York in 1844, adopted a resolution prohibiting Bishop James Oswald Andrew, whose Southern wife was a slave-owner, from serving the Church as long as slaves were in his family. Indignant, Southern members withdrew, met at Louisville the next year, organized the Methodist Episcopal Church, South...
They blew up the mine, wrecked its extraction mill, destroyed the nearby Bonanza mine, captured George Marshall of New York, carried him away, turned him loose in the jungle to die wretchedly of malaria...
Washington he finished seventh and last in the world's championship 18.2 balkline billiard tournament, winning not a game. Last week he began the 1929 tournament in New York by vanquishing Edouard Horemans, of Belgium, the sleek, wavy-haired, temperamental titleholder, 400 to 292. Then he outcued Felix Grange of France, then Eric Hagenlacher of Germany. His chances of winning seemed so good that he calmly announced: "I really believe that I'll go right through the field...