Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nation's First Hostess was left the first official announcement of another major international event. At her press conference Mrs. Roosevelt made known that George VI & Queen Elizabeth, after making a royal tour through Canada, will spend three days in June at the White House, one in New York City at the World's Fair. King George will have the northeast pink bedroom suite which Anna Roosevelt Dall Boettiger used to occupy. Queen Elizabeth will have the larger blue suite on the southeast corner which, before the executive wing was built, used to be the U. S. President...
...Manhattan, where it was deemed wise to provide protection for the German consulate, Mayor LaGuardia stole a leaf from the late, great Roosevelt I. While Police Commissioner of New York, T. R. once had to provide police protection for an anti-Semitic German preacher. He did so by delegating Jewish policemen to keep order. Last week Mayor LaGuardia appointed an all-Jewish detachment of police under command of Captain Max Finkelstein to guard the German consulate and escort distinguished Nazi visitors through the city...
...Lane '39, chairman. A legal expert in Boston has been consulted on the technicalities of securing affidavits. A telegram pleading for an affidavit for a Vienna Kreisler Prize winner, threatened with jail, was received by Ernest M. Jondorf '41, Chairman of the Affidavit Committee, from a Long Island, New York, family...
Robert B. Ridder '41, acting for the Contact Committee, entrained for New York City last night to put the plan before the International Students Service and discuss the prospects for a National Office to coordinate the activities of the student refugee aid drives which are expected to develop in schools in other sections of the country...
...YORK--Welterweight champion Henry Armstrong blasted his way to greater fistic glory tonight by successfully defending his title against a much heavier challenger, Ceforino Garcia, Philippine boxer, in a fifteen-round fight at Madisou Square Garden...