Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That was in 1916 and 1917, before the U. S. entered World War I. Since then, some of the warlike preachers have died; some-notably Dr. Fosdick-have sworn off for life. Dr. Manning, now Bishop of New York, has kept his guns oiled, said recently: "A Christian cannot be neutral between right and wrong. . . . Right is more important than peace. . . . What our ultimate duty as a nation may be if the conflict is prolonged...
...York City's smart little ex-Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker, wrote his second song in 25 years (the first: Will You Love Me In December As You Do In May?). Excerpts from In Our Little Part of Town...
Among successful belchers in good society: a New York lawyer who argues cases in court, a Philadelphia magistrate, several teachers. During the past month, Dr. Levin, with Dr. Chevalier Lawrence Jackson, has shown belching sound films before the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, the American College of Surgeons. Last week in Manhattan he disclosed to Lawyer Arturo Alessandri, ex-President of Chile, this interesting fact: patients who lose their larynxes do not lose their foreign accent. When they learn to talk in belches, they make the same mistakes...
...spot was Latin America: October takings were up 14% from September, 18% from October 1938. But cash buying is a luxury for Latin America necessitated by War II's cutting down its barter trading with Europe. By last week most Latin American Governments had eaten into their New York bank balances, were wondering whether Washington intended to do some export pump priming...
...Last week, the Department of Labor's all-commodity index, whose war-boom peak had been 79.5, slid to 79.1. The New York Journal of Commerce's more sensitive index (autumn peak: 82.4) was down...