Word: york
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doghouse. He apparently had a chance to subside into the War Department's No. 2 position, no discernible chance to replace Harry Woodring when & if the President finds a satisfactory successor. Attorney General Frank Murphy was offered the War portfolio, turned it down. An oft-mentioned possibility: New York City's LaGuardia...
...only the Cincinnati Reds but also the game of baseball seems to be taking a terrific shellacking at this point. Attendance records have fallen off during the summer and threaten to drop more in 1940. And all because of the Yankees. The Reds lined up against New York with a strong team and a fine manager. it looked like the Yanks were really in trouble. DiMag was wallowing in a huge batting slum; two of the pitches complained of sore arms and a third pulled a muscle in his side. "There is hope," thought the baseball world. But after...
Thomas W. Lamont '92, a partner of J. P. Morgan in New York City, has presented to the Library a valuable collection of books and manuscripts relating to the Spanish Armada of 1588, library officials announced today. Lamont personally negotiated the purchase of this collection during his recent visit to England...
Born 69 years ago, in Claverack, N. Y., Lamont attended Phillips Exeter Academy before entering Harvard as an undergraduate in 1888. He started work, after getting his A.B. degree, as a reporter on the New York Tribune, but soon entered the banking field, where his rise was phenomenal. In 1911 he joined the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co. and since then has served on the boards of many of the nation's largest corporations...
...bastards!" . . . The whole industry's going slightly crazy on the idea of electricity since Leopold Stokowski brought forth the idea of an electric symphony orchestra . . . Everything from individual amplification to bands made up of all-electrical instruments is being tried. Leading the band wagon is Barry Wagner of New York, who has a great many of his ideas patented . . . Mannie Klein, star trumpet player, has his lips insured for $100,000 by Lloyd's of London--and carries around the policy to prove it . . . Glenn Miller's "In the Mood" is selling well and is a very good disc. Incidentally...