Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Manhattan as a delegate to the Pan-American Conference at Lima, "but here's a story for you. I think the outstanding Democratic candidate is the man [Herbert Henry Lehman] who has just been elected for the fourth time as Governor of the great State of New York. I don't see how the Democrats can pass up a man who has been elected Governor four times...
...entirely friendly" spirit, New York's James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr., only Congressman who has been a Senator (1915-27), advanced himself last week as a rival to Massachusetts' Joe Martin as a candidate for Minority Leader of the House. Because, said he, "I feel that the course to be followed by the Republican minority . . . during the next two years is of vital importance." Western Congressmen think neither he nor Joe Martin deserves the Leadership, since the main Republican gains of the last election were made in other States (Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kansas, Michigan). Their candidate: Carl Mapes of Michigan...
...Commented the Berliner Boersen-Zeitung on a letter in the New York Daily News signed by Reader Max Rosenberg, who proposed that "professional killers" be freed from U. S. jails and sent to Germany to assassinate the Führer...
...Jewish retailers 30,000 strong closed their delicatessen, kosher butcher shops and pharmacies in Jewish sections of Metropolitan New York for 60 minutes last week. Some of them hung out signs: PEOPLE OF AMERICA, STOP HITLER NOW, AND SAVE CIVILIZATION! Bigger retail establishments like R. H. Macy & Co. made formal denials of rumors that they would fire their Aryan employes, replace them with refugee Jews...
...York Herald Tribune Walter Lippmann, most statesmanly Jewish pundit in the U. S., took a sober and broad-gauge view of the situation. Said...