Word: york
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a U. S. ship, the Erica Reed, with the Stars & Stripes painted on her sides, sailed from New York for Leftist Spain, her hull bulging with 11,000,000 lb. of foodstuffs contributed by Leftist sympathizers. Perhaps the most precious part of her cargo was a 26-pound package of nicotinic acid (270,000 doses), the recently developed cure for pellagra. This gift, addressed to Leftist Premier Dr. Juan Negrin, himself a well-known physiologist, was sent by 39 U. S. scientists, including three Nobel Prizewinners...
...Easiest Victories." Most journalists who covered the historic House of Commons session at which these policies were nailed to the Empire mast agreed with New York Times London Bureau Manager Ferdinand Kuhn Jr. that "Mr. Chamberlain won one of his easiest victories. . . . [His] majority of 207 tonight was far bigger than his margin of 162 in the vote of confidence that followed Mr. Eden's resignation eight months...
When James J. Walker was New York City's mayor, he brought to the City Hall the ingratiating glibness of a slightly superannuated musical-comedy juvenile. In the year 1932 he felt the hot breath of investigation on his neck, stepped nimbly out of office. Since then he has never had a suitable stage...
...includes other hospitals, an old ladies' home, many another haven for shut-ins. His job involves ad libbing a show which is half benefit, half heartstring jerker. Last week he interviewed patients, put his guests through their cheer-spreading paces. Although he is doing this series free, New York's one-time mayor is in the market for a sponsor...
...more conspicuously successful in their financial management of Cooper Union than it has been as an educational institution. The institution's main income comes from the site of the Chrysler Building in Manhattan, donated to the school by the Coopers. Recently Cooper Union won a suit against New York City for tax exemption on the site and building, acquired $2,500,000 in cash (back taxes it had paid) and more than $400,000 a year in additional income...