Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...signatures of most of the Popes of Rome. A present hobby is the collection of originals of newspaper cartoons. Mr. Woodin plays little golf; seldom uses his costly yacht. He is a graduate of Columbia (school of mines, 1890) and an Alpha Delta Phi, was Fuel Administrator in New York State during the coal strike of 1922, ran for Congress unsuccessfully in 1898 and though a life-long Republican, supported Governor Smith. He is 60. Believing strongly in self-control, he stops smoking one month each year to demonstrate that he is no tobacco-slave...
...young man as executives are considered (he is 46) Mr. Brown began his commercial career as an office boy with the New York Herald. In this capacity he earned $5 a week. Making the not un common progression from newspaper to secretarial work, he became secretary t6 Edward Marshall, the Herald's foreign correspondent. He was also secretary to William Dinwiddie, Herald war correspondent during the Spanish-American war. After a period of reporting, for the Washington Times, Mr. Brown got into organization work with public utilities...
...yells made farewell din in the narrow harbor of Dunedin, New Zealand, last week, Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd's South Pole Expedition started from that port for a year and a half in Antarctica. He, his scientists and able seamen were aboard the bark City of New York. There was no breeze flirting down Dunedin's forested mountains to tap-tap her sails; so her mateship the steamer Eleanor Boiling hauled her down the narrow Otago Inlet like a puffing rustic leading his wench through a lane...
Behind her at Dunedin she left another Byrd ship, the Eleanor Boiling. She is to follow the City of New York about Christmas time, when the Antarctic ice is mushy from its summer's heat...
...City of New York is carrying airplanes, two portable houses, scientific baggage, and a season's supply of provender. Commander Byrd will set up his base on the Bay of Wales, across the Antarctic Continent from Deception Island (among the South Shetlands), where Explorer Sir George Hubert Wilkins, a fortnight ago, made tests for his South Polar flight (TIME, Dec. 3). The Wilkins Expedition is rather a tour de force, another example of intrepidity. Of necessity a swift affair, its scientific observations can be only bird...