Word: york
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brazil's Sebastian Cardinal Leme da Silveira Cintra, who reminded his visitors of New York's late saintly Cardinal Hayes, greeted them as "spiritual ambassadors." Archbishop Pedro Pascual Farfan of Lima, Peru-an ancient Catholic city which produced the first American saint, St. Rose-addressed Bishop Ryan and Father Sheehy with florid Spanish courtesy, insisted that they sit upon thrones at a reception...
...From Berlin last week an irate Nazi newscaster griped: "The New York short wave broadcasting station (NBC's W3XL) contributed lying news yesterday during a news broadcast given at the same time the Fiihrer was making his speech." The objectionable items, quoted from British newspapers, were: 1) that Hitler might have to undergo a second operation on his throat; and 2) that German troops were massing near the French and Italian borders. What obviously had the Nazi back up was not NBC's news, but the fact that too many Germans were listening to it when they should...
...Ellsworth B. Buck is a hard-hitting business man who three years ago became a member of New York City's Board of Education. Mr. Buck was appalled to learn that the city's 400,000 junior and senior high-school pupils were taught virtually nothing about sex. He decided that something should be done about it. Last summer he saw his chance. From the Board of Superintendents came a new course of science study for junior high schools, proposing to teach pupils about reproduction among birds and flowers but not among animals. Mr. Buck & colleagues promptly sent...
...mothers who bore illegitimate children in New York City last year, 96 were girls under 17, one a girl of 11. Many of these girls were unaware, when they were seduced, that they might have babies...
...Contrasted with New York City children's disastrous ignorance was the attitude of youngsters in suburban Bronxville. There boys and girls are taught the facts of life in school. Asked a parent: "Don't you talk about all this outside of class?" Replied a pupil: "Yes, we do some, but there's not much to talk about. Everyone knows as much as everyone else...