Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Daladier and Bonnet "fulfilled the French dream of establishing a complete Anglo-French defensive alliance" according to Ferdinand Kuhn Jr. of the New York Times's London office, while its P. J. Philip in Paris thought "they have accomplished what no other French ministers have ever done ... a firm agreement between Great Britain and France to stand together and fight together if and when they must fight." Flashed from London International News Service's Kingsbury Smith: "A new western frontier beyond which Germany will be forbidden to trespass was created today by France and Great Britain, simultaneously with...
...headlines Sir John Simon figured last week as the man who had just raised the basic British income tax rate to 27½%-but this was more astonishing to less heavily taxed foreigners than to Britons, for they have been paying 25% anyhow. Excited about 27½%, the New York Post put through a transatlantic telephone call, asked Fleet Street reporters to coax in a few Lodoners at random off the street to be questioned by New York. A van driver (truck driver), George Merrick, said: I think it is a very fair tax for the working...
...Yorker, Manhattan smart-chart, ran an interview with Grover Aloysius Whalen, fine-figured president of New York's forthcoming World's Fair (seep. 35). Excerpts: "My personal investigation in Europe has conclusively proved to me that there'll be no war. Why, the uncle of the King of Egypt told me today that there positively will be no war. ... A wave of enthusiasm for the World's Fair is sweeping Europe. That's what Europe is thinking of now-not war." Also last week the enterprising Mr. Whalen was pleased to pose with a group...
Woodrow Wilson called him the First Citizen of Texas." New York's Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise said he was "the greatest rabbi we've got." Jacob Schiff gave him $500,000 to set up a Jewish Immigrants' Information Bureau in Galveston, Tex., to attract more Jews to the Southwest. Author O. Henry, onetime convict, kindled his interest in parole work, in which he became a U. S. leader. With a shotgun over his shoulder and a bottle of whiskey in his pocket, he led citizens in keeping order after the Galveston hurricane of 1900. At a public...
...years, metropolitan readers of New York's Times and Herald Tribune have paid 2? for these big budgets of morning news. Those 2? barely paid the cost of the blank newsprint for each paper. Beginning this week, half a million New Yorkers had to change their habits, fork out 3? for the Times or the Tribune...