Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reporters tumbled off their Olympus. Sore on their individual accounts, they were particularly angry because the resolution was aimed at the New York Times'?, fair and able Louis Stark, who by example has generally done more than any other one man to raise the level of labor reporting. The Lewis dinner was "off the record." But plenty was said to him and Guild President Heywood Broun...
Kernel of the U. S. Supreme Court's historic ruling on the salaries of Port of New York Authority employes, making them subject to Federal income tax, was that the Authority, an autonomous body set up jointly by New York and New Jersey, is not essential to the existence of either State (TIME, June 13). If that kind of corn is good for the Federal gander, argued New York's Attorney General John J. Bennett in a brief he filed with Supreme Court last week, then it is also good for State geese...
...appealed the case of James B. O'Keefe, an attorney for Home Owners' Loan Corp. in Manhattan, who had sued for and won in the State courts a refund of $57.28 collected from him by New York on his $2,246.66 HOLC salary for 1934. Attorney General Bennett argued that HOLC is but one of a "constantly mounting number of new operations which have come to be regarded as having some relationship to government," but are certainly not essential to the existence...
Having come within a squeak of being elected Governor of New York this month by asserting that New York's Democracy is a dirty political machine, famed young Republican District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey last week went back to work. He produced a dramatic indictment charging that a leading Tammany officeholder, whose name is a household word throughout the State, was a bribe-taker and extortionist...
...since 1924 State Commissioner of Motor Vehicles. Tammanyite who introduced a song to celebrate the return from Europe of discredited ex-Mayor James J. Walker. Commissioner Harnett has managed to hold his $10,000 job through Tammany's ups & downs, has been well and favorably known to New York's 3,500,000 licensed drivers...