Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...represented the decrease in building for August 1929, compared to August 1928. It meant, roughly speaking, that for every four structures built during August 1928 only three were being built during August 1929-a startling shrinkage in so basic an industry. Greatest decline, however (45%) was in New York; decrease outside the metropolis stood...
...Fund started functioning last week in Manhattan. Its campaign: to raise $1,120,000 to lend as tuition fees to "anyone, regardless of age, race, color or creed who can furnish proof of need and sincerity of purpose." Its founder: Jacob J. Vandever, onetime (1922) President of the New York Rotary Club, and active philanthropist who likes to dress up as "Father Knickerbocker" each year for the outing of the Broadway Association, booster organization. Associated with Founder Vandever on a national advisory committee are such varied figures as the Hon. Theodore Gilmore Bilbo, Governor of Mississippi; General Robert Lee Bullard...
While flyers scamper here and there, their wives wait, think, sometimes speak their minds. The New York World last week published some interesting views. Excerpts...
...late Lord Northcliffe's opinion "the greatest living journalist" (TIME, April 26, 1926), the publishing world knew that something striking might happen to the Patriarch of the Library. Editor Garvin's selection was encouraged by U. S. representatives and the American Advisory Board, with Franklin Henry Hooper of New York as American Editor, was given new freedom...
...seniors.* His card was 77, two strokes better than Charles D. Cooke of Arcola, N. Y. Veteran tennis players appeared last week on the courts at Forest Hills, L. I., for the national veterans championship. In the first round, swarthy Franklin Pierce Adams, 47, New York World colyumist ("The Conning Tower") was eliminated 6-0, 6-0 by an unseeded entrant. The eight seeded players survived together to the quarterfinals. The finals were won by Clarence M. Charest, of Washington, D. C. who learned to play left-handed when he lost his right arm in a shooting accident twelve years...