Word: york
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Representative John J. O'Connor of New York (purged in the Democratic primary but nominated on the Republican ticket against the Purge's candidate, James Fay) announced: "I am not only confident that I will be re-elected but I am confident that I will be re-elected as chairman of the Rules Committee. . . ." To Mr. O'Connor from Democratic Representative Arthur P. Lamneck of Ohio promptly went a pledge of one vote...
Where this plane landed was kept a secret, but from his hideout the Generalissimo sent a manifesto which the New York Times headlined: CHIANG SEES GAINS IN EVERY RETREAT. To Occidentals, who think in days, months and years this was pure irony; but Chinese think in decades, centuries, millenniums...
Said Dr. Edward S. Godfrey Jr., Commissioner of Health of New York State, who was elected 1939 president to succeed Abel Wolman: ". . . I would prefer a demonstration at the outset on a smaller scale than a State as a unit...
...Deutschland in 1925 collided with the Britisher Martin Carl in the English Channel, same year cracked two other ships in the Elbe, had a mild fire at sea in 1929, and in 1933 stove a hole in the Munson Liner Munargo off the Statue of Liberty in New York...
...ruckus even drew some notice from the pontifical pen of New York Times Music Critic Olin Downes. Said Pundit Downes: "A four-voiced fugue, in the best Benny Goodman style, would be something, though just what defies the imagination...