Word: york
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Park he indulged in one of those coldly furious, sarcastic lectures which his press has heard before. He accused Congress of endangering the national defense, of returning power over the dollar to international speculators as it was in 1931. He singled out Felix Belair Jr., correspondent of the New York Times, for a special blast about big newspapers, whom he accused of wishing to see control of the money markets return to private hands. (Next day the Times recalled editorially that in 1922, Franklin Roosevelt was president of United European Investors, Ltd., speculators in German marks...
...open-air lunch with the President at Hyde Park, New York's Herbert Lehman carted 17 other Democratic Governors, ten Republicans who had just finished the business of their 31st Annual Governors' Conference at Albany. The Democrats needed comfort, for at the supposedly non-partisan conference such new G. O. P. brooms as Raymond E. Baldwin of Connecticut, John William Bricker of Ohio, had put them on the defensive by hammering at Federal Relief policies (but not at Relief cash...
...Thirteen minutes from now will be the first of July, and I have a feeling that even in New York the grass will not be growing in the streets. I have a feeling that the banks will open...
...Court of Peace at the New York World's Fair last Sunday afternoon a gay & lyric troupe of 33 took the stage. They were the Wheeling Steelmakers, employes, or relatives of employes, in twelve plants of Wheeling Steel Corp. in the Ohio Valley. The occasion: a weekend outing & spree and a World's Fair broadcast to wind up their second season...
Strapping Fred W. Meyenborg, president of the Merchant Tailors Society of the City of New York, last week sounded a Recovery note. He announced that businessmen will be in good physical shape to handle increased business, when it comes. Reason: Their average waist measure is smaller than...