Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Morrow, Ambassador to Mexico, last week formally accepting the U. S. Senate seat to which he will return from the London naval conference (TIME, Dec. 9). The day before, 50 potent New Jersey Republicans had met at Orange, formed the "Morrow-for-President-in-1936 Club." Meanwhile the New York Telegram in a front page story had given a headline nomination to New York's Owen D. Young as Candidate Morrow's 1936 Democratic opponent...
...Japanese delegates journeyed to New York, there embarking on the Olympic for London, the Post blatted back at Statesman Stimson that it was "sorry if its high praise of Secretary Adams had caused acute pain and humiliation to the Secretary of State...
...Lakin letters also revealed attempts to set the Cuban stage for visiting newspaper and magazine writers lest "they fall into the wrong hands." Covert arrangements had been made to receive and influence writers for TIME and for the New York Times...
...Manhattan, onetime Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith, now enterprising citizen of big projects (part owner of New York "Giants," trustee of New York State College of Forestry, director of the National Surety Company, board chairman of the County Trust Co., and president of Empire State Building Corp.), announced that the plans of the Empire State building, world's largest, tallest, on the old Waldorf-Astoria site on Fifth Avenue, would include a mooring mast as dirigible way-station, 1,300 feet above the street...
Transcontinental Air Transport announced last week an augmented train plane schedule linking Manhattan with San Francisco. Transcontinental passengers now transfer at Los Angeles (Glendale Terminal Airport) and for $10 extra reach San Francisco about three hours later. Present (reduced) net charges for transcontinental air rail travel (New York to Los Angeles, over the Maddux Line which recently merged with T. A. T.) are: T. A. T., $267.43; Western Air Express, $211.20; Universal Air Lines System...