Word: york
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Celebrated during the inquisition of J. P. Morgan by Counsel (now New York Supreme Court Justice) Ferdinand Pecora, was a notation found on an income-tax return, made by an Internal Revenue agent, which read: "Returned without examination for the reason that the return was prepared in the office of J. P. Morgan & Co., and it has been our experience that any schedule made by that office is correct...
Governor Luren Dudley Dickinson, 80, of Michigan, who claims a "pipeline to God" (TIME, June 12), last week described, in a public statement, what he saw during his trip last month to the Governors' Conference at Albany, Saratoga Springs and in New York City. Lurid was the word for the observations of the Governor, whose lifelong dream is the revival of prohibition. Excerpts...
...innocency, by high-life rules paired at a table with a young man with a wife and children at home. All aglow in her youthful innocent glee she unfolded plans made to pair with him at each following public function, with an added trip during the lull at New York to visit a friend of his, to take through the highways, byways, hellish beckonings at every turn, through similar routes from which thousands like her never return...
Governor Lehman of New York (the host): "No comment...
...22nd annual P.G.A. championship tournament, held last week at the Pomonok Country Club, almost within a trylon's length of the New York World's Fair, will long be remembered for: 1) the noisiest squabble in the history of the Professional Golfers Association; 2) the most exciting final waged between two bread-&-butter putters...