Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trooped into his office one day last week, lay a wicked-looking gold-handled seven-inch knife-a "yataghan," presented to him by the Sultan of Muscat and Oman. Said the President, waving it over his head: "I can put it in the wall at 30 paces." Replied New York Daily News Reporter Doris Fleeson: "How far down Pennsylvania Avenue can you throw...
Outside of Congress, main figures in the fight against the Reorganization Bill were as extraordinary as the uproar they helped promote. One was Publisher Frank Gannett, who backed up his fulminations against the bill throughout his chain of upstate New York papers with something called the National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government to lobby against the bill under directions of a $400-a-week propagandist named Dr. Edward Rumely. The other was famed Father Charles E. Coughlin who emerged from his retirement to make two radio speeches on the subject. Coughlin speeches and Gannett literature produced a record-breaking flood...
...House, its 90 Republicans were naturally lined up solidly against the plan. So was a strong Democratic anti-Roosevelt bloc led by New York's Tammanyite John O'Connor, Chairman of the Rules Committee which stopped the President's Wages-&-Hours Bill last summer. Nonetheless, voting on amendments earlier in the week had suggested that the coalition was sufficiently outnumbered to make the final vote on recommitting-i.e., killing- the bill little more than a formality prefacing its passage. When sturdy Mr. O'Connor rose to speak his final piece on the matter last week...
...counterpart, one major difference is that most are considerably shorter-lived. Three-quarters of the State constitutions provide for conventions at the behest of their constituents, making the average age of a State constitution between 20 and 25 years. New Hampshire has had eleven constitutional conventions, Louisiana ten, New York seven. In 1894 New York's Legislature made mandatory a referendum every 20 years after 1916 on whether a convention should be called. In 1916 the voters apathetically said No. In 1936 they apathetically said Yes. So last week 164 elected delegates, six of them women, filed into...
...become to many a "consuming ambition" and its exercise by this labor leader would be regarded as vaguely unAmerican. But the possibility of Mr. Lewis' offering himself as a candidate in 1940 is "a slim one indeed" according to Edward Levinson, well-informed Labor editor of the New York Post. In his book, Labor on the March,* published this week, Author Levinson ascribes high-minded purposes to this self-denial...