Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Buffalo, N. Y., seven bandits, masked with white handkerchiefs, interrupted a dinner party long enough to obtain jewels valued at $400,000 from assembled socialites. Mrs. Philip Metz, daughter of Norman Edward Mack. New York's Democratic National Committeeman, lost $60,000 worth. Mrs. Raymond Allen Van Clief was bereft of a $200,000 pearl necklace. Frank Burkett Baird, builder of the Peace Bridge between Buffalo and Canada, uncle of one of the 100 guests, offered a reward of $5,000 each for the robbers alive, $10,000 each dead. His explanation: "If authorities are forced to resort to gunfire...
...good turkey year was 1929 with its mild winter and dry summer. Husbandmen throughout the land raised the largest flock in a decade. Last week as the fowl began to move to market for the Thanksgiving trade, a surplus threatened. Retail prices in New York City, where 12,000,000 Ibs. of turkey will be consumed before Dec. 1, slid down to 50? per Ib.-15? under last year's price, with poultrymen fearful of further declines before...
Appointed. Dr. Joseph Carter, one-time (1921-22) Brown University halfback and 100-yd. dasher, as admitting physician at Harlem Hospital; first Negro so appointed to New York City hospitals...
...veto any dollar transactions contemplated in any country by the Bank. Getting this clause adopted was the major triumph at Baden-Baden of the two U. S. representatives, short, stocky Jackson Eli Reynolds and lanky, drawling Melvin Alva ("Mel") Traylor, presidents of the First National Banks of New York and Chicago, respectively...
...share of Japan and the U. S. will not be subscribed by their central banks?as in the case of Britain, France, Italy and Belgium?but, according to Article Six, by "Messrs. X, acting in place of the Bank of Japan, and Messrs. Y of New York." Of course "the Messrs. Y" will be J. P. Morgan & Co. Thus without putting up a cent the Federal Reserve?traditionally in closest touch with the House of Morgan ?will have a major "phantom stake" in the Bank. The same arrangement appealed to cautious, bespectacled Emperor Hirohito of Japan, who, by advice...