Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speech: "Where recompense is not suit ably graduated for human endeavor, the desire to excel diminishes and finally there is no adequate stimulus for endeavor." TIME further erred in reporting that Dr. Kopetzky had for months been criticizing the National Health Program. The critic was The New York Medical Week (Dr. Kopetzky, editor...
...mayors of New York City, Boston, Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, Milwaukee, Louisville, Ky. and Amarillo, Tex. appeared last week before Representative Woodrum's sub-committee which is looking into WPA's past before appropriating for its 1940 future.* To the mayors' debt-ridden cities, WPA is a fairy godmother and they are her loyal courtiers. All the mayors were unanimous that: 1) WPA must go on, 2) work relief must not be returned to the States & municipalities, 3) WPA has done a great job of permanent value. This year there was a sober note in their pleas...
Having learned the joys of being a conspicuous little frog in the national pond, Maury Maverick went home vowing to become the biggest frog in San Antonio. He formed a Fusion party (named after Fiorello LaGuardia's in New York) and went after Mayor Quin's machine. He centred his campaign on the squalid life of San Antonio's peon pecan shellers (the biggest voting bloc), got Eleanor Roosevelt down to look at them, accused Quin & Co. of a long list of offenses at least one of which -padding the city payroll with 555 voters -brought Quin...
...home of irrevocably anti-Roosevelt old Carter Glass. Mr. Farley there swore fealty once more to Franklin Roosevelt, saluted his humanitarian aims, kept silence regarding the President's economic surrealism. Same week in Albany, Jim Farley's friends moved to tie up for him the New York delegation to the 1940 Democratic National Convention...
...Washington last week toward the New York World's Fair (thence to New England) rolled a roadshow long promised to stamp collectors by Jim Farley: a three-ton truck fitted up as a philatelic museum, displaying 535 varieties, representing every U. S. stamp. Announced value was $1,000,000, although the displays are unused, unsalable, imperforate proofs from original plates. Visitors to the truck can buy a 10? history of U. S. philately, current and commemorative stamps. Hot off a tiny press, they get blue souvenir stickers of the White House portico where Philatelist Roosevelt last week dedicated...