Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...particularize this pageant it may be recalled that "the Officers of Arms habited in their tabards and attended by the Sergeants at Arms shall assemble at St. James's Palace and there proceed to the balcony in Friary Court" with the six Heralds-Richmond, Windsor, Lancaster, York, Somerset and Chester†-thereupon trumpeteers sound a "fanfare" and the proclamation is first read by the Garter Principle King of Arms, at present Sir Henry Farnham Burke...
Special Correspondent Wythe Williams of the New York Times picturesquely described the ensuing confusion: "Election day dawned with no strong candidates of any party. Election day waned with no candidates developing any signs of sufficient strength to win. In fact, ten minutes before the final ballot any latecomer in the halls of Parliament where the election was held might, by a few well-chosen words, have obtained the victory...
...Louis Dispatch, which consisted of a patched-up press and an Associated Press franchise; and the first edition of the revitalized paper appeared on Dec. 12. Five years later it was showing a net income of $85,000, enabling Mr. Pulitzer to buy his other famed property, the New York World...
...World. In 1883, Joseph Pulitzer bought the New York World, for $346,000. In 1903, he was able to establish the Joseph Pulitzer Fund of some $2,000,000 for the endowment of the School of Journalism at Columbia University. In late autumn of 1911 he died, peacefully, on board his yacht Liberty bound south for a leisurely cruise. With William Randolph Hearst he was one of the two most influential figures in U. S. journalism...
Trinity (Broadway and Wall Street), where Bishop Manning was rector before his elevation. Richest parish in New York...