Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eagle Pencil Company of New York did not know that El Salvador was omitted from a world map which it was including in children's pencil boxes until the United Press called its attention to the protest made by the National Tourist Board of El Salvador to the Salvadorean Minister in Washington. The Eagle Pencil Company regrets this incident which was entirely unintentional on its part. It did not prepare or print the map in question but bought the same from a company of high standing in the printing trade. The error will be corrected in the future...
Born in Flushing, L. I. in October 1895, Lewis Mumford was brought up on Manhattan Island, knocked around from City College to New York University to Columbia studying philosophy, biology and literature without getting a degree. In 1915 he met the most pervasive influence of his life in a little book by a Scot named Patrick Geddes, a biologist trained under the great Thomas Henry Huxley. Geddes had turned to sociology and to the study of Edinburgh and other cities. Mumford became a student of New York. Within the next few years he covered the city systematically on foot, studied...
...Mumford's long correspondence and friendship with Geddes did not end until 1932, when that great-bearded, great-craniumed and voluble Scot died in France with a knighthood fresh upon him. By that time Lewis Mumford had lived, worked, sketched and studied in London, Paris, Pittsburgh and New York. He had made a literary success with a biography of Herman Melville and had written the first meagre draft of what has since been expanded to Technics and Civilization and The Culture of Cities...
...power when it is concentrated on such a scale: it is called impotence." One proof of impotence is that almost every step the metropolis has taken to deal with congestion has actually increased it. Subways route millions of people a day to the city's centre, in New York cost the city 3? over every 5? fare. Such transportation improvements as Wacker Drive in Chicago, which cost $22,000,000 a mile, tax the properties benefited and automatically produce a rise in rents, which becomes capitalized in the form of higher land values. End result: more intensive use, further...
When Cardinal Innitzer arrived in Rome, no one from the Vatican met him at the station. His first interview, with Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, Papal Secretary of State, was described by well-informed Arnaldo Cortesi of the New York Times as "very stormy." Cardinal Innitzer rested his case upon oral guarantees made to him by Reichsführer Hitler and Field Marshal Göring. These guarantees were rejected as insufficient by Cardinal Pacelli, who thereupon turned Cardinal Innitzer over to Bishop Galen. So convincing was the Bishop of Münster's tale of broken Nazi promises that...