Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mexico is a colony of modern artists little known in the East, outside of New York. The painters live in or around Santa Fe and are called the Santa Fe group. One of the foremost is Cady Wells, whose watercolors are now on exhibit in the Fogg Museum...
...YORK--George Burns, the "straight" half of the famous vaudeville and radio comedy team of Burns & Allen, walked into federal court today and pleaded guilty to a secret indictment charging him with smuggling $4,885 worth of jewelry into the country as presents for his wife, Gracie Allen...
...York and other financial centres last week the Securities & Exchange Commission began cleaning up an international "front money" racket. As uncovered by SEC on the West Coast, the racket works as follows: a broker with a luxurious office advertises he can obtain capital up to $100,000 for persons with ideas or assets to capitalize. The sucker pays $250 to $2,500 to file a prospectus, smaller fees to organize a corporation and qualify its securities in New York. One Paul E. Reinhardt, front man for front money in Los Angeles, told SEC that for none of his 150 clients...
...Staten Island ten years ago, Law Student Charles A. Mulligan Jr. was notified that he had passed his New York bar examination, was overwhelmed by congratulations from his friends. Then he was notified that it had all been a mistake- he had failed. Ashamed, he hid the fact, rapidly became a successful criminal lawyer. Recently he asked New York City's Mayor LaGuardia for appointment as a magistrate. Last week, after an investigation, he was indicted...
...himself said, "Because these papers relate to so many periods and activities which are not connected with my service in the Federal Government, I do not wish to break them up, leaving a portion of them to the National Archives and dividing the rest between the State of New York Archives, the New York State Historical Society, the Harvard College Library, the Duchess County Historical Society...