Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philanthropist Kress is example setting. For some years now he has been giving and lending noteworthy pieces from his collection to small but deserving museums throughout the nation. San Antonio, Charlotte, N. C., Montgomery, Wichita, Seattle, Memphis, Phoenix, Savannah and Macon have received permanent additions to their collections. New York, San Francisco, Milan and Brescia, Italy are currently exhibiting temporary loans of Kress...
...talked local businessmen into backing a sporting goods store, gave golf lessons to drum up trade. He played in the low 120s. In 1928 he landed a job in a San Francisco bond house; by 1930 he was Anglo California National Bank's resident manager in New York. He was 22 then...
First to round the world by commercial airline was the New York World-Telegram's, Herbert Roslyn ("Bud") Ekins (1936; 181 days...
Sixteen days, 19 hours, 4 minutes after leaving New York, Widow Adams was back again. She had flown all the way. Total mileage: 25,000. Cost: $2,500. Chortled she: "That's ten cents a mile. Can you travel cheaper than that...
Many a suburban and rural neighborhood around New York City is haunted by a big black nightmare: the possibility that one day someone with a name like "Wonderful Peace" or "Beautiful Sweet" will appear in the district, lay cash on the line for a nice piece of property. Then followers of Harlem's bald, black, mousy Rev. Major J. ("Father") Divine will move in. For parts of Yonkers and New Rochelle, N. Y. this nightmare came true this spring and summer...