Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mississippi folks are going to apply this law in Mississippi, New York folks in New York," he says. Eventually every factory and business house subject to the law will be inspected once a year, either by Major Fletcher's staff or by cooperative State Labor Departments...
Taking their cue from the Premier's plea, the Executive Council made the first sacrifice, a decision not to send a Chinese exhibition to New York's 1939 World's Fair because of the "uncertainties of transportation." The supreme sacrifice was made by General Yu Han-mou, charged with the collapse of Canton's defenses, who was erroneously reported to have surrendered to the Japanese after the city's fall. According to Japanese reports, he was executed by the Chinese...
Thus last week outspoke New York State's defeated gubernatorial candidate, Republican Thomas E. Dewey, and was joined in vehement indignation by Democratic Senator William H. King of Utah who proposed that the U. S. forthwith break off diplomatic relations with the German Government...
...poorly-clad men jogged the elbow of a New York Times Berlin correspondent and whispered: "The German people do not approve of such treatment of the Jews." Bad Neighbor Policy. The harsh, explosive epithets in which the German language is rich, were heaped, together with obscenities, upon Jewish men, women and children in every part of the Reich...
Damage & Indemnity. In Germany, insurance companies reported damage claims of more than $5,000,000 from Jewish policy holders in Berlin, more than $4,000,000 in Vienna. The New York Times estimated that total damage to Jewish property in Germany "may possibly reach one billion marks" ($400,000,000). The Times thought that the Jewish community this week, after all depredations, still owned property in Germany worth perhaps four billion marks ($1,600,000,000) and, before Hitler, may have owned 20 billions...