Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Since Alexander Hamilton" is a phrase which may well jumble the dreams of Andrew William Mellon. What the sidewalks of New York were to Alfred Emanuel Smith. "... since Alexander Hamilton" is to Mr. Mellon. He almost never dines publicly without it. His perpetual, though flattering, subordination to Hamilton arises, of course, from the fact that Hamilton was a political philosopher as well as a financier. Last week Secretary Mellon narrowed the gap between himself and Hamilton by laying down certain principles of government: Responsibility. "A stable government must rest upon the confidence of its people. High administrative offices must...
...American methods of the most atrocious falsehoods; unfair and improper pressure brought to bear upon workers in specially favored Republican industries, false claims for the prosperity of the country and kindred propaganda, cheated, so my correspondents feel, our party out of the Presidency." The arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune replied: "If Governor Roosevelt and his correspondents have any evidence of illegal attempts to influence the 1928 election, that evidence ought to go to the legislature or the courts. Even then the reference to the Tilden case would remain mysterious. Tilden drew no indictment against the voters and made...
...Correspondent Wythe Williams of New York's potent Times seemed the most irked at having to stand shivering all day without the gates. He alone reported that the arriving princes "primped" themselves before entering House Doom. And no one else seemed to find in the birthday press handout a passage which quoted Wilhelm II as exclaiming...
...classmate of his great & good friend, Arthur Twining Hadley, now Yale's President Emeritus, Bannard served Yale as a member of the Corporation and as chairman of the successful 1927 campaign to raise $20,000,000.? In 1909, he, no politician, ran for Mayor of New York City at the urgent request of his Republican friends; he finished behind William J. Gaynor and ahead of William Randolph Hearst. His business monument is the New York Trust...
Termed dilatory by President Coolidge (see p. 9), the Interstate Commerce Commission last week roused itself, took action, decided that the New York Central R. R. might legally acquire the Cleveland. Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis and the Michigan Central railroads, and subsidiary lines of the two. Merger permission was conditional upon purchase by the New York Central of six short-line roads in the affected area...