Word: york
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...traders, apprehensive of peace proposals Orator Hitler might make at Danzig, did a little quick profit taking, then spun the dials of their radio sets to hear the Führer. "It was a market based on peace jitters," recorded Financial Editor C. Norman Stabler of the New York Herald Tribune. He figured that the day before, "the market lost 32% of the war upswing" because it was feared that A. Hitler might directly propose peace...
...chief, Cordell Hull, so that the smaller countries would not feel dominated) began issuing statements, as President Juan Demosthenes Arosemena of Panama polished up a speech of welcome, the U. S. got busy backstage. Casually, as if its perfect timing were just a happy coincidence, the New York World's Fair put on a Pan American Day, at which, by chance, Cordell Hull was scheduled to speak. In the Fair's Court of Peace, Secretary of State Hull gave a quiet, drawling speech in favor of justice, fair dealing, mutual respect, cooperation, solidarity. A better showman...
...bows. Only person who volunteered to talk German with the Nazi commander who came aboard was Professor Stork. After searching the Wacosta this officer said (Stork translation): "We are not so very barbarous, are we? Except that I do need a shave. . . . I'll see you in New York at a tea dance...
...life, $3,575,000 in cash. Goebbels was given a total of $8,990,000, of which $4,635,000 was said to be cash. Ribbentrop's figure was $9,740,000. The report named securities held for GÖring by "a German shipping firm in New York": $750,000 worth of bonds, mostly Pennsylvania R. R., Illinois Central, Cities Service, Bethlehem Steel. It gave him three ranches in South America; $1,225,000 in a bank at Sao Paulo, Brazil; $1,000,000 in Swedish kronor, Danish kroner, Dutch guilders and Belgian francs in Banco di Sicilia...
George Jessel, radio showman, disclosed a pact between him and James John ("Jimmie") Walker, nimble-witted onetime mayor of New York City, by which the survivor will deliver the other's funeral oration. Showman Jessel has spoken 50 eulogies in the last 15 years. Most memorable one, over the body of Broadway Comedian Jack Osterman last June: "Mr. God, they say you've got a great big heart, so give the boy a great big hand...