Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Treasury sat ruddy John Wesley Hanes, Under Secretary, brooding over the dropping British pound, the effect of a war on U. S. money, the certain crashing raid by foreign security holders on the "thin" market of the New York Stock Exchange. Hanes, a positive, bluff, solid man, oddly inconsistent with the cold background of his Treasury office-icy-eyed portraits of former Secretaries, ancient shiny red-plush drapes, a cool white-marble mantel-arrived every morning last week at 7 a.m. (noon in London) to telephone his boss, Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. in Finland, Sweden, Norway; to telephone...
...years New York City police hunted halfheartedly for a big-eared little racketeer called Lepke (Jewish diminutive for Louis) Buchalter. But the U. S. public did not become Lepke-conscious until last month, when Presidentially ambitious District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey branded Lepke as "probably the most dangerous criminal in the U. S." and posted a $25,000 reward for his capture dead or alive. Lepke was supposed to have preyed on the fur, garment, painting, trucking and other trades. After that Lepke became a pawn in a political game between Republican District Attorney Dewey, who is grooming himself...
...Lepke. He figured he would get a lighter rap from the Federals than from zealous Mr. Dewey. Last week Lepke walked into the Federal Building accompanied by the chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, John Edgar Hoover. As soon as news of his capture leaked out, New York City's officials...
...Pittsburgh). Other important changes, most of them effective last week and last fortnight: Crosley Radio Corp., Cincinnati, W8XAL to WLWO; General Electric Co., Schenectady, W2XAD, W2XAF to WGEA, WGEO; G. E.'s Treasure Island, San Francisco, station, W6XBE to KGEI; CBS, Philadelphia, W3XAU to WCAI; NBC, New York, W3XL, W3XAL to WNBI, WRCA...
Irate mobs did not denounce Joseph Smith as loafer, drunkard, Satan's instrument, until he had refused to tell the hiding place of the golden plates. After they had dug up most of the Palmyra Hill of Cumorah without finding the gold, they drove him out of New York State. After the Mormon bank in Kirtland, Ohio failed during the panic of 1837, mobs in Ohio, Missouri and Illinois tarred & feathered Smith, lynched his followers. Non-Mormons envied the prosperous, fast-growing Mormon city of Nauvoo, feared a well-trained Mormon army of 5,000 men, and known political...