Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that their nation is a part of the world; that Britain, long the strategically dominating factor in Europe and the first line of defense for America's isolationism, no longer holds that position; that Berlin is closer--several days closer, by steamship--to Rio de Janiero than is New York; and that, as the President yesterday said, "democracies of the world which observe the sanctity of treaties . . . cannot safely be indifferent to international lawlessness anywhere. Acts of aggression . . . automatically undermine...
Attacked from behind and knocked down on the steps of the City Hall by a discharged WPAster suffering from delusions of persecution, New York's scrappy little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia grabbed his assailant's legs, got them in a scissors hold before police came to the rescue. The fracas over, he remarked: "That's nothing to some of the blows I've taken under the belt. ... It was fortunate for him that I was not facing...
Flying their flag upside down by day, lighting flares by night, they drifted for three days. At nightfall of the third day the American Farmer came along, headed from London to New York with Captain H. A. Pedersen in command. Soon the lucky eight, like the crews of the Vestris, Antinoe, Florida, many another hapless vessel, were toasting their shins in a U. S. Liner's galley. Landing in Manhattan just in time to board the departing Cunarder Ausonia for Halifax, they got back home for a Christmas in which wide-awake U. S. seamanship played a far greater...
...grand tally sheet of U. S. rescues at sea, the Maritime Commission's stubby 5,041-ton freighter Schodack at week's end added a few more numbers. Some 600 miles out of New York, plunging home through the tossing seas, the Schodack's watch spotted a flaring distress signal. As quickly as she could make it, the Schodack was at the side of the 8,181-ton Norwegian freighter Smaragd, foundering in the tumbled, ocean with a sodden cargo of coke, a crew of 18 and the captain's wife and daughter aboard. First boat...
...myself in for this stunt?" Twenty-five-year-old Lindley Beckworth, newly elected Representative from Texas and youngest member of Congress, called at the House to pay his respects to Speaker Bankhead. Exclaimed the chief doorkeeper: "I thought you were one of my new page boys." In the New York Times's, Public Notices column appeared an ad signed by Manhattan Producer John Golden...