Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nose-blowing, said the New York State Department of Health last week, there are many schools of thought, but on nose-blowing as a science, only one. Strictly unscientific is the popular custom of gripping the end of the nose with the handkerchief, for it closes the nostrils, backfires the nose into the ear tubes or sinuses. When the nose is in good hearty shape, the grip method may not be harmful, but "when it is diseased, beware...
...studios to persuade the U. S. Department of Justice that there is real competition in the cinema business is a competitive race to the screen with accounts of how a mettlesome, unsleeping special prosecutor breaks up rackets. In I Am the Law, Edward G. Robinson looks less like New York's District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey than Chester Morris did (Smashing the Rackets) or Walter Abel (Racket Busters). He plays the part of a law school professor, an authority on criminal law, absentminded, mild as milk. On a leave of absence from his teaching job he takes...
...Assistants to the National Director were placed as Regional Directors over the West Coast, the Rocky Mountain States, the Midwest, the South, New England and Metropolitan New York (including New Jersey). At a top salary of $3,500 a year, these Directors have supervised the employment of as many as 5,300 artists in 44 States and have authorized a total expenditure of $3,757,000 in 1936, $5,838,000 in 1937 and $4,550,000 in 1938. Artists' wages, determined by the cost of living in each locality and by union rates, have varied from...
Each summer since 1934, said he, the Italian Government has recruited thousands of boys and girls between 10 and 15, the U. S.-born children of Italian parents, for a trip to Italy. It packs them aboard drip at New York, pays all their expenses. When they arrive in Italy, the children are sent to camps and clapped into the black-shirted uniform of the Balilla, Fascist youth organization. They march in military drills, learn to give the Fascist salute and to sing the praises of Mussolini. After touring Italian cities, where they are banqueted and reviewed by Government officials...
...story. But that story was confirmed by records of the Italian Government itself. The Government boasts that today 80,000 children in foreign countries are enrolled in the Balilla. Last year it recruited 18,500 foreign children, of whom some 5,000 were from the U. S. (mainly New York City, Detroit, Pittsburgh and San Francisco), for the summer trip to Italy. Of its $6,500,000 annual budget for propaganda abroad, Italy spends nearly half to support, wholly or partly, some 800 schools, most of which are in the U. S., France and South America...