Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York City...
...bought Julius Fleischmann's 225-ft. yacht Camargo, renamed it Ramfis for his small brown son, announced a private pleasure trip to the New York World's Fair-via Washington. This squeeze play soon brought forth almost all the invitations Dictator Trujillo had yearned for-a gala at the Pan American Union, dinner with Acting Chief of Staff Marshall of the U. S. Army, audience with Secretary Hull, tea with Franklin Roosevelt. Also included in the program was a luncheon by Haiti's Minister Elie Lescot, to prove that Haiti has forgiven Trujillo for his troops...
...lank, long-nosed Southern politician, weak from fever, stood on the deck of the cruiser Indianapolis just outside New York Harbor and proudly saluted 81 steel-gray warships in the mightiest display of naval strength ever to pass before a President. By then everybody but pacifists agreed that Claude Augustus Swanson, who had got his job for reasons of political expediency, was one of the best Secretaries of the Navy the U. S. ever...
...York City, in Ohio, Wisconsin, Minnesota, WPAsters who belonged to unions-mostly in the building and allied trades, mostly A. F. of L.-walked off their jobs. In some places they quit spontaneously, in most they were called off by their union officials. Twenty thousand, 50,000, 75,000, daily the number of strikers rose throughout the nation. In their own minds, the men were protesting against their longer working hours. Actually, their leaders were trying to coerce Congress by direct action to correct a situation which they thought would provide an argument for employers in private industry (especially building...
...thought it would really go, we would hesitate much longer about letting him have our plates." Said another: "The price is still too high for paperbound books-they have to sell at 10? or 15?, compete with magazines." A third publisher said the initial success in New York was no guide, was due to novelty appeal and Pocket Books' $2,000 full-page ad in the New York Times. Pocket Books will hit quicksand, he declared, in the distribution problem...