Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York State's Labor Relations Board declared last week in a formal complaint that the Ray E. Dunlap Enterprises at the New York World's Fair had "intimidated, coerced and warned its employes not to exercise their rights of self-organization for collective bargaining." The employes: 17 itinerant guess-your-weight artists. They included Guesser Jack A. Whyte and his sons Frank and Clifford, who guessed that they could get away with forming a union, were fired for their error...
...Louis left Hamburg one Sunday last month. Out into the grey waste of the Atlantic it carried its dismal cargo: 937 German-Jewish refugees bound for Cuba. The ten-year-old, oil-burning, 16,732-ton ship was scheduled to discharge its miserable company at Havana, proceed to New York to pick up passengers for a gay June cruise to the West Indies. The refugees were to remain in Cuba until they could enter the U. S. They were a typical group of the world's newest homeless wanderers: men in sports clothes who had paid as much...
...passengers en route to the U. S.-and on May 5, nine days before the St. Louis sailed, hard-faced President Federico Laredo Bru had decreed that Cuba required specific permission of the Departments of State, Labor and the Treasury. Rumors spread as Tuesday passed without change, as New York representatives of Jewish relief agencies flew to Havana. The rumors whispered of a longstanding dispute between the Hamburg-American Line and the Cuban Government, of a growth of Cuban anti-Semitism due to the landing of 5,000 refugees in Havana during the past year. Lawyer Loewe slashed his wrists...
Free Lances v. Professionals. All these estimates of the quality of Europe's military machines are subject to debate. In the debate there are in general two sides. Free-lance authorities such as bulky, unruffled Major Eliot, earnest, deep-eyed Hanson Baldwin of the New York Times...
Solomon Guggenheim has always been interested in education. He was, for example, treasurer of the Public Schools Athletic League of New York for many years and is still a patron of the Brightside Day Nursery. These activities are pie, however, to the educational job Solomon Guggenheim undertook two years ago at the age of 76. "I desire to encourage the development of the esthetic sense of our people," said old Mr. Guggenheim, and plunked down something like $3,000,000 to endow a foundation for "nonobjective" art (TIME, July...