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Word: york (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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After predicting that A. Hitler would get what he wanted and "then announce that he is willing to negotiate," New York City's big, beefy Bundster Fritz Kuhn declared: "England and France will not declare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: PEOPLE IN WAR NEWS | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...have to give Hitler time to answer her: "It was our belief that Miss Thompson was expressing some personal opinions, and it does not seem . . . in view of the N. A. B. code, that anything but reportorial matter would be in the public interest." Next day the isolationist New York Daily News, while not contesting Miss Thompson's right to be heard on the radio, commented testily: "We cannot help wishing that Dorothy Thompson's son, now about 10, were about 19 instead. If that were the case [she] might perhaps be somewhat less hysterical in her public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Air Alarums | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Scandals (conceived and produced by George White), first edition in four years of an old Broadway annual, is a testament to Producer George White's faith that hopped-up burlesque at revue prices will attract many a New York World's Fair visitor. Mr. White's show was tried out in Atlantic City last month, fumigated in Boston, and presented last week on Broadway at a $7.70 opening night top. Its reception indicated that Producer White's faith would not be too severely punished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Musical in Manhattan: Sep. 11, 1939 | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...name in the U. S. maritime tradition is America. During the War of 1812 the privateer America took more than $1,000,000 in spoils from British ships. In 1851 the sailing yacht America set a new New York-Le Havre record of 20 days, 5 hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Second Wind | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

When seven others had had their turn, the Guildsmen motored to New Jersey, where they battered away at the carillons of Rumson and Morristown, then proceeded to the New York World's Fair, where they had a crack at the carillons in the Belgian and Netherlands pavilions. After three days of it, the 18 peal-drunk Guildsmen shook hands and staggered home to their own belfries, after the biggest U. S. carillonary jam ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bellwhangers | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

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