Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vice President McBain is a small, chunky man who went to the University of Michigan with New York...
Catherine Prehm ("Mother") Terry, 71, onetime woman compositor on the New York Journal, where she spilled hot type metal on William Randolph Hearst's dress shirt one night, now publishes the Klamath Free Press (circ. 1,050) in Bonanza, Ore., is currently campaigning to wipe out card gambling in tolerant Bonanza...
...authors' fond hope, in portraying such girlish fun, "to capture the spirit of New York's glittering and legendary years." To their idyllic plot they have added an atmosphere as romantic as a pair of handcuffs, a sty's-the-limit vulgarity. To those who were not of theatre age in 1900, / Must Love Someone gives the impression that the Florodora Sextet included such glamor girls of the past as Red Light Annie, Chicago May and Lizzie Borden...
Last time anyone danced with the insurance business was in the 1905-06 Arm strong Life Insurance Commission Investigation, which started Charles Evans Hughes on his career. Exposing all sorts of shenanigans by insurance executives, Investigator Hughes cleaned up most old-time insurance evils, was responsible for revising New York's insurance code (soon copied by most other States...
...subsidiary, NBC, has already announced that it will begin its own public televising, a series of two-hour-a-week programs, on April 30, with the opening of New York's World's Fair...