Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Richard Kidston Law. reporter for the New York Herald-Tribune, son of the late British Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law; to Mary Virginia Nellis of Rochester...
Thus assured, Joker Barnes grabbed the train for New York. Earnest scientists from all over North America were gathering for the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, under the thoughtful presidency of famed Dr. Henry Fairfield. Osborn (TIME, Dec. 31). Jolter Barnes fidgeted while they delivered their addresses. Then he got his chance...
...elected. John R. Voorhis, 99, Grand Sachem of Tammany Hall; to be president of the board of elections of New York City...
Died. Edward Palmer York, 63, Manhattan architect (York & Sawyer?Bowery Savings Bank, Guaranty Trust Building, Pershing Square Building), of Princeton, N. J. & Stonington, Conn.; after an operation; in Manhattan. Like many a famed architect, Mr. York served his apprenticeship with McKim...
...Ohio last week made another feint towards accomplishing consolidations of eastern railroads. In 1920 Congress authorized the railroads to consolidate into trunk systems. But there was no acceptable plan. So the railroads have bought to form system themselves. Between the Mississippi, Great Lakes and Atlantic Seaboard, the Pennsylvania, New York Central and B. & O. were solidly braced to take on smaller lines. The Van Sweringens entered the situation by buying control of the Nickel Plate, Chesapeake & Ohio, Erie, Pere Marquette and Hocking Valley and offering a plan (contested in the event) for unifying them. Leonor Fresnel Loree entered...