Word: york
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rockaway); Bethpage Park (where the near-rich can play polo and all can play golf on four 18-hole courses for $1 and $2 greens fees); seven other public golf courses; 161 City tennis courts; 250 City playgrounds; 233 miles of motor parkways. Due to his efforts, Greater New York, long backward, has probably the biggest, most elaborate recreation facilities of any U. S. city, and many of them are self-supported by moderate fees for bathing, parking, charcoal at the fireplaces provided for picnickers.* Mr. Moses has long had in mind making a public promised land of Long Island...
...Detroit, delegates to the biennial convention of the 25-year-old National Woman's Party (Mrs. Stephen H. Pell of New York, national chairman) cheered a plan to raise $1,000,000, to campaign for an Equal Rights amendment to the Constitution. *The plan: to sell red, white & blue Lady Liberty stickers, with a man and a woman balanced evenly on scales held (instead of a lawbook) in Liberty's left hand...
Addressing the Cortes in Barcelona last week, Leftist Premier Dr. Juan Negrin said: "Spaniards must come to an under-standing among themselves without outside aid." Similar sentiments were expressed in July 1937 by Leftist President Manuel Azaña, but last week New York Timesman Lawrence A. Fernsworth wirelessed from France that this time Premier Negrin meant business. In Spain, significantly added Mr. Fernsworth "the suggestion that peace negotiations may be under way is not permissible in the press or in news dispatches sent out of the country." The Leftist Government remains pledged to victory, "a formula that does...
...Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs, 52-year-old Kensuke Horinouchi, a cultured, urbane globe trotter with 27 years of diplomatic life behind him. No stranger to the U. S., Ambassador Horinouchi served as counselor to the embassy in Washington in 1930 and as consul general in New York...
Youth Takes a Fling (Universal) is a mildly pleasant comedy about the Kansas youth (Joel McCrea) who thinks he wants to be a sailor and the New York salesgirl (Andrea Leeds) who knows he doesn...