Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan's insecure aristocracy of wealth to spend their evenings in public restaurants rather than their homes. As a group, this faction got itself labeled Cafe Society. Top chroniclers of Manhattan society are "Cholly Knickerbocker" (Maury Paul), $50,000-a-year oldtime smart-setter for the New York Journal and American, and Lucius Beebe who writes a weekly column for the New York Herald Tribune...
...that local business cannot get along without them. Alarming result: it has gotten along quite well. In December, for instance, the bigger stores reported business up 6% over 1937; in January and February it was down 7% to 9% from 1938, about the same as in big-advertising New York City. At the same time merchants have saved up to 50% on their promotion and advertising budgets...
Purcell-Barbirolli: Suite for Strings, Horns, Flutes & English Horn (New York Philharmonic-Symphony, John Barbirolli conducting: Victor: 4 sides). Anthology in modern orchestral dress of music by England's great 17th-Century master. Brilliantly played and recorded...
Died. Eugene J. Young, 64, cable editor of the New York Times; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In 1913 he predicted a general European war within a year, in March 1918 predicted the War would end before Christmas...
...anticipation of Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins' maiden speech to U. S. Business (see p.11) the New York stockmarket last week popped out of its rut. More significant was the rise in stock prices morning after the appeasement speech-indicating that Wall Street at least was impressed. So was business generally. Although the New York Sun indulged in a Tory sniff ("Honeyed words, meaning little"), most press and business comments took the charitable point of view that Secretary Hopkins really meant what he said...