Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Judge Manton is not to be confused with County Judge George W. Martin, on trial in New York City last week for allegedly accepting a $1,000 bribe to quash an abortion indictment...
...strutting Bundsters were to most New Yorkers a pack of Dutch comics. But his Garden show gave the shivers to libertarians and plain democrats, made him quarry worth hunting even though his own pack was well content with him. Last week the hounds, set at his heels by New York City's libertarian, Nazi-baiting Mayor LaGuardia, ran down Nazi Kuhn. Charged with plucking $14,548 of Bund funds, he was indicted, arrested, freed on mercifully low bail...
Republic claimed that during the 1937 Little Steel strike its plants in Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland and elsewhere had lost $2,500,000 because C. I. O. pickets ("armed mobs") had menaced employes, caused suspension of mails, obstructed railroads and highways from its plants, restrained interstate and foreign trade. Under the Clayton Act, triple indemnity plus costs is payable. It was no coincidence that Republic's suit followed by one week C. I. O.'s plea to the Labor Board for $7,500,000 in back pay for time lost by employes after their reinstatement...
...grandson), a Lincoln alumnus whose seven-year-old son Rodman is now in the school, to announce that he was having an investigation of the school made by leading educators. Chief investigator: Dr. Luther H. Gulick, director of the Regents' recent $500,000 survey of New York's public schools...
...there were 28 shows on Broadway. June 1 there were 16. Such a slump is normal enough at season's end, but this year Broadway thought that the New York World's Fair would keep her dolled up in her midwinter ermines. Instead, with New Yorkers scurrying to Flushing and out-of-towners in no rush to get to New York, the Fair has Broadway limping about in rags. Last month within a few days more casts petitioned Actors' Equity Association to be allowed to take cuts than at any other time in Equity's history...