Word: york
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...WPAsters wielding picks & shovels on a ditch-digging project in New York City's Bronx, 38 walked off the job one day last week and refused to labor more. Their reason: working with either pick or shovel was hard enough, but to ask any man to use these tools interchangeably (i.e., without a chance to rest while another worker plied the other tool) was "inhuman." Result: one man discharged, one suspended, interchangeable picking & shoveling resumed...
...Said New York's thoughtful Representative Bruce Barton, up this year only for re-election to the House: "I believe we are going to have, maybe not in 1940, maybe in 1944, a Republican party worthy of being trusted to run the affairs of the country...
...suspended the vessel's clearance papers. Reason: stowed aboard was silver worth $4,500,000, mostly bullion belonging to the Chinese Government but some of it jewelry and silver ware donated by patriotic Chinese for the purchase of war materials. The consignment was on its way to New York's Chase National Bank. The Japanese claimed that the silver rightfully belonged to the Japanese-controlled new Chinese Government at Shanghai. Dollar Line officials, unwilling to anchor the ship indefinitely off the China coast, grudgingly unloaded the silver and clearance papers were reissued. The shipment was stored...
Despite a press campaign against anything but unconditional victory, even in Rightist Spain there was growing talk of mediation. Few U. S. or British newsmen covering Rightist Spain have stood in the good graces of Generalissimo Franco's avid blue-penciling censors for long. Notable exception is New York Times Correspondent William P. Carney, who has minimized Italian help to the Rightists, mentioned Moorish troops infrequently, reported denials of large-scale executions, called the Rightists "Nationalists" and described the Rightist reoccupation of Teruel seven weeks before that city was retaken. Even ardent Rightist Carney last week apparently felt...
...International Master Ladies' Hairdressers Association and the Coiffure Guild of New York, supporters of the upswing hair style, attacked Greta Garbo's pageboy bob as a cultural lag, called it "wholly unsuited for wear by her or by the women of this country...