Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next day, while Dick Whitney was consulting his lawyer - Charles Henry Tuttle, 1930 G. O. P. candidate for Governor of New York-the Attorney General's office did make a grab for his body. Commodore William A. Stewart of the Yacht Club wanted the club's securities back. Missing now was a total of $109,384 in securities the club had trusted to Treasurer Whitney. Assistant Attorney General McCall found them at Public National Bank as part collateral for the Whitney loan, and, as the Daily News's news section put it, "Richard Whitney ... for the second...
...Author. Only son of a prominent New Jersey lawyer and politician, Edmund Wilson has had a more varied career than most critics. He served in the Intelligence Service during the War, was a reporter on the New York Sun, managing editor of Vanity Fair, an editor of the New Republic for eight years, where he alternated his scholarly essays with firsthand accounts of strikes and political conventions. Absentminded, round-faced, stuttering slightly when animated, Wilson is a conscientious, molelike conversationalist. He sometimes surprises people by popping up from a topic they thought had been abandoned, picking up the conversation precisely...
With progressive education as much subject to attack as the New Deal, Roslyn's school troubles drew wide attention. Its school board quickly asked the New York State Department of Education to investigate. Last week, after a year's thorough probing, the State delivered its verdict in the case of Progressive v.Traditional Education in Roslyn...
...York's Department of Education set out to determine how well Roslyn's children read, wrote & multiplied. The investigating committee, headed by Assistant Commissioner John Cayce Morrison, sympathetic to progressive education, also tried to measure how well Roslyn was getting along toward good social and moral habits, an understanding of the world, "joy and happiness." Last week Dr. Morrison produced a 56-page report, announced these salient findings...
Great Portraits. Last week some 2,000 Manhattanites spent the price of a movie to see what some critics considered the most stunning show of the year. Arranged by a long list of socialite sponsors for the benefit of the public Education Association of New York, it was correctly entitled "Great Portraits from Impressionism to Modernism." In the lofty, skylit galleries of Wildenstein & Co. visitors saw 48 selected masterpieces by Cezanne, Manet, Renoir, Gauguin, van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, Degas, Marie Laurencin, Matisse, Derain, Pascin, Picasso, Modigliani. Visitors who regarded any of these reputations as unfounded were quickly disabused...