Word: york
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Speaker Bankhead of the House called on the President to discuss legislation, emerged to say that the emphasis will be on national defense, especially in the air. Another report led the New York Times to publish the headline of the week...
Esau. Next to New York City's spunky, part-Jewish Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, whose manhandling by a disgruntled WPAster was front-page German news last week, the U. S. politician whom Nazis hate most is that spade-is-a-spade "Aryan," Secretary of the Interior Harold LeClair Ickes...
Last week at 70 the most useful of Jay Gould's unusual children died. Her admirers turned their eyes towards New York University's Hall of Fame. She endowed...
...exposition they designed, was their collaborative harmony. Fellow members of the Bohemian Club, august sanctuary of San Francisco tradition, most of them shared a mellow view of architecture and were damned if they would kill themselves advancing the modern cause in new materials and organic form. New York City's 1939 Fair already had a lien on the World of Tomorrow. Chairman Kelham and crew therefore plumped for a pleasuredom on "Treasure Island," an imaginative. quasi-Oriental "Never-Never Land...
...FORTUNE Survey for November deduced that 24.3%, or 31,590,000 of the nation's 130,000,000 people expect to go to New York, 6.9% or 8,970,000 to San Francisco...