Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York World's Fair their own Empire's exhibits will consume most of the visitors' time, to the exclusion of fun on the Midway. They must leave in time to motor to Hyde Park for dinner at Mother Roosevelt's. After a quiet weekend there, they will entrain for Canada to embark for home on the battle cruiser Repulse...
...Lecturing at Harvard, Park Commissioner Robert Moses of New York City said: "In practice, every American knows that we cannot remain absolutely aloof from another world conflict... we shall be lucky if this aid can be confined to money, materials and munitions as distinguished from...
...Said Publisher J. David Stern's excitable Philadelphia Record & New York Post: "There has been a lot of war talk in the papers and we are sorry for it. ... Can't we, in the name of common sense, stop...
...four original copies of the Magna Charta, basic charter of freemen's rights handed by King John of England to his rebellious barons at Runnymede (A.D. 1215), arrived in Manhattan on the Queen Mary. Delivering the document to Mayor LaGuardia, to be sent to the New York World's Fair grounds, Sir Louis Beale, British commissioner-general to the fair, declared: "It is a treasure beyond price. . . . In this city and in this spot it is in the safest possible hands...
...resolution sponsored by New York's Senator Wagner and Massachusetts' Representative Rogers would lift U. S. immigration quotas to let 20,000 child refugees from Germany (one-sixth of the estimated number who are in "desperate straits") enter the U. S. this year and next. At hearings on the bill last week, Clarence E. Pickett of the American Friends Service Committee (Mrs. Roosevelt's favorite charity) drew the pitiable picture of Jewish children in Germany barred from schools and from playing in parks, spat upon in the streets, seldom able to see their hunted fathers...