Word: york
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...statesmanship. In seeking revision of the Neutrality law which Congress fastened upon him two years ago, Mr. Roosevelt this year sought primarily to remove his obligation to declare an embargo on "implements of war" for belligerents. The revised Neutrality act offered in the House last month by New York's prognathous Sol Bloom was drawn with this in view, and all seemed set for its passage...
Delivered at $2 a copy last week was FORTUNE's New York City number, for which 170,000 copies in addition to the regular run of 140,000 had been ordered in advance. In its 248 pages, 23 articles, 179 illustrations were innumerable facts about the world's second largest metropolis, two striking conclusions. The conclusions: 1) many do not enjoy living there, although almost no one would want to move away; 2) "The transfer to Washington of the basic ideas concerning the economy has reduced the New York financier to the status of a highly paid clerk...
...estimated 7,500,000 people live in New York City, 1,200,000 on some kind of relief...
...real Americans there is one New York statistic that incontrovertibly isolates the city from the rest of the country; immigrants and the sons and daughters of immigrants, who make up 31 per cent of the population of the U. S., make up 73 per cent of the population of New York City...
...York City has 1,070,000 of Italian birth or parentage; 945,000 of Russian; 613,000 of Irish; 600,000 of German; 178,000 of English; 240 Hindus; 136 Icelanders and one Siamese. It has 2,000,000 Jews (of various nationalities); 440,000 Negroes...