Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nordwind, had skittered from the Azores to Port Washington, Long Island. Howard Hughes and Douglas Corrigan having completed (TIME, July 25) their spectacular flights with a maximum of uproar, the commercial airlines of three nations were quietly getting down to the business of flying the Atlantic. The New York World-Telegram, one day when no transatlantic plane was in the air, printed a facetious front-page headline: U. S. VIRTUALLY CUT OFF FROM EUROPE...
...dress-collar union acquired an A. F. of L. charter and set about organizing opera from top to bottom, from $1s-a-week spear-carriers to prima donnas. Soon A. G. M. A. had negotiated agreements with Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl, the itinerant San Carlo Opera, the New York Hippodrome Opera, and most of the smaller U. S. opera companies. Last week, A. G. M. A. bagged a real prize: an agreement recognizing the union as sole bargaining agent for the artists at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. This killing left only two important U. S. opera companies...
Ohio has given the U. S. seven Presidents. Only one State-Virginia, with eight-has done better. Ohio has 37 colleges. Only two States have more-Pennsylvania with 59. New York with...
...Concord, N. H.), he was offered two other jobs: the Episcopal coadjutor-bishopric of Pennsylvania, the rectorship of Manhattan's Trinity Church ("one of the most enviable jobs in or beyond the Episcopal Church" which has often proved a stepping-stone to the top-ranking bishopric of New York). St. Paul's is the oldest and biggest of the haughty Episcopal preparatory schools, and its headmastership always ranked high, but Dr. Drury's nolo episcopari enormously increased the prestige of the job. When stern, sonorous Dr. Drury died last February, S. P. S. trustees searched the Church...