Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keenest Kieran of all is the New York Times's, John Francis, considered by many the best-equipped sports philosopher since William Hazlitt (1778-1830), known to many more as the least stumpable question-answerer on Canada Dry's Information Please program...
...neighborhood just north of Manhattan Island. First practical application of the ornithology John learned came that fall when he ran a chicken farm as a sideline to his first job after graduation from Fordham. He was a school teacher at $10 a week in a two-pupil rural New York school where Brother Leo janitored for $5 a year. At home in the long evenings he read Blackstone and the Bard. In 1915 he left his two pupils for the Times, pieced out a cub's salary with the slightly ornithological sideline of running the Central Park swanboat concession...
...afternoon in late 1930 a peal of the gong brought trading on the New York Stock Exchange to a halt and President Richard Whitney mounted the rostrum to announce the suspension of J. A. Sisto & Co. for inability to meet its obligations. One morning last week a peal of the gong brought trading to a halt and Exchange Chairman Edward E. Bartlett Jr. mounted the rostrum to announce the first suspension since Richard Whitney & Co. was expelled last March. It was J. A. Sisto...
...three weeks officers and directors of the swindled drug firm had been telling New York's Assistant Attorney General Ambrose V. McCall that they had no reason to suspect the late F. (for Philip) Donald (for Musica) Coster. Not so, said Mr. Catchings...
...committee questioned professors of a New York college and other witnesses when it directed its search for propaganda to the college and university ranks of the nation. What those people have seen and heard went into the record--but what about the views of the students themselves...