Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Rev. G. W. Enders, pastor of a rural Lutheran parish near York: "Nearly all of my congregation, perhaps, have been powwowed for, at one time or another. ... I just ignore...
...York County medical men were planning last week for some action to check "hexers" and "powwow doctors." Inspection of the Pennsylvania statutes revealed a law passed against witchcraft in 1861. The new legislature is to be asked to make it more stringent. According to Coroner L.U. Zech last week, three-fourths of the 150,000 people of York County believe to some extent in witchcraft...
Mayor. A dapper, quick-eyed gentleman in an easy chair at the City Hall-a Manhattanite with sporting instincts not unlike Rothstein's except that his gambling is in votes and publicity-could stand it no longer. Once before, under deadly parallel circumstances, a Mayor of New York had lost caste when a gambler's murderers were brought to justice slowly during his administration.* So Mayor James John Walker called for his Police Commissioner and gave him a certain number of days to get "action...
...Royal Highness, officially the "High and Mighty Prince of Wales," resided during the week at York House, his modest bachelor suite in a wing of St. James Palace...
...night a motor car and relays of chauffeurs were kept at the disposal of the Prince. Though refusing all public engagements and most private, H.R.H. kept himself in trim by a daily game of squash racquets with the Duke of York at the Royal Automobile Club. As head of the Regency Council the "High and Mighty Prince" acted pro-tempore with the authority of King and Emperor-except that he did not possess the power of creating Peers, dubbing Knights...