Word: york
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republican possibilities forced cancellation of a "Forward to Forty" dinner, scheduled in Washington last week. Taking note that Ohio's Senator Taft had stuck his neck out at the first such dinner TIME, May 1), Mentionables Dewey of New York, Bricker of Ohio and James of Pennsylvania declined to speak at the second...
Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia of New York has in the course of his checkered career been by turns a Republican and a Fusionite, a standard bearer of the American Labor Party. He is also a good friend of the New Deal and has said he would take the Democratic nomination for President if it were offered. Rumor recently whispered that Thomas Gardiner Corcoran was advising him on ways & means of controlling his State's delegation to next year's Democratic Convention, possibly with a view to obtaining another nomination for Franklin Roosevelt, perhaps to offer New Deal support...
Another Tommy Corcoran (Thomas Louis Joseph Corcoran) is assistant counsel and adviser to Governor Herbert Henry Lehman of New York. Thomas L. J. is a lawyer (taught in Fordham University Law School from 1934 until last year), and a braintruster in his own right...
...World. As it happened, the first foot each set down when they left the gangplank of the Empress of Australia at Quebec was the left foot. This ill omen was somewhat reflected in the reserved manner in which Quebec's French-speaking citizenry received them, causing New York Timesman John MacCormac to observe: "Canadian crowds are given to taking their pleasures silently, if not sadly." But the farther west Their Majesties went on their 26-day Canadian trip, the more English and enthusiasm they ran into, until, at Ottawa, the crowd went crazy and somebody actually slapped George...
...wire figures, a mobile setting for a musical work (Erik Satie's Socrate), in which steel hoops, colored discs and rectangles, "very gentle," move during the performance. At the Paris Exposition he constructed a fountain of mercury flowing through tubes; for the Consolidated Edison Building at the New York World's Fair he designed a "Water Ballet" of fountains from 14 nozzles, which are controlled by cams, squirt in choreographic rhythms in a five-minute cycle...