Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Merchant Truckmen's Bureau of New York (500 voters), by unanimous vote at a meeting. Reason: as a onetime truckdriver, Nominee Smith has stood against "efforts to tax the motor truck off the highways...
...Eppes hails from St. Louis and that Western town has never produced a more fascinating girl than this pleasure loving, scintillating and talented young daughter of Senator and Mrs. Harry Hawes. She's like a flash of concentrated lightning. Her social triumphs include New York, Newport, Washington, D. C., where she is a reigning belle in diplomatic circles and St. Louis, the city of her birth. Not only is she more than passing pleasing to the eye, but she dives like an otter, dances like a nymph and has a dramatic talent that would land her on Broadway were...
Detective Thomas J. Tunney of the New York City police department, brother of retired Fisticuffer James Joseph Tunney,* was put on the trail of two unknown young men who had robbed an automobile of a $8,474 payroll, in the bright morning sun, near an entrance to Central Park, Manhattan. The young men were very bold about it, told the old man and the girl bookkeeper who were guarding the payroll to "Shut up." Detective Tunney, recently promoted, has a reputation of getting...
...telegraphed a most unusually premature or prophetic admirer* to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, congratulating him on his Democratic nomination for Governor of New York (TIME...
...York is divided into an expansive Republican "upstate" and a congested Democratic "downstate." In no one of his four successful campaigns for Governor did Alfred E. Smith ever carry more than 13 of the 57 counties outside of New York City. This year it has been variously estimated that he would have to meet Nominee Hoover at the New York City line with a plurality of 400,000 to 600,000 votes, to save his State's 45 electoral votes...