Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...visitors watched an exhibition of sheepherding by three Border collies, trained by Luke Pasco, who, blind from five to ten, was led about his father's farm by a Border collie. With neatness and dispatch the dogs split, drove, penned a small flock of bewildered sheep. Cracked New York's ex-Mayor James John Walker (on hand to follow Irish terriers): "This sheepherding may become very popular around town. It might be a particularly good idea for the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November...
Spokesmen for the Federal Theatre in New York denied that any ridicule was intended, that any boos had resulted, refused to give the "Senators" any new lines...
...editor has long since been silenced. Few Germans today ever see an anti-Nazi publication. A smattering of troublesome pamphlets is still smuggled in the bottom of wheat barges ascending the Rhine from Holland, and such journals as the inflammatory bi-monthly Die Schiffart (Shipping) are printed in New York, hidden in the cargoes of German ships by U. S. longshoremen and sneaked into Germany under German longshoremen's jackets...
...strike broke, labor news coverage was so undependable that 32 labor editors met in Chicago and founded Federated Press. Today, from a crowded single room a block off the radical vortex, Manhattan's Union Square, Federated's News Editor Harold Coy supplies news, features, comics and New York Times'?, Wide World pictures to 145 papers. Other chief agency for labor news is independent International Labor News Service, which usually sees things...
...Month ago President Grover Whalen of the New York World's Fair Corporation found himself besieged by Manhattan artists. Their grievance: that the Fair had failed to allocate ground or building for an art exhibition (TIME, Feb. 7). Last week Mr. Whalen and his directors faced growing criticism from another quarter. On view at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art were two sets of pictures, contrasted with a minimum of comment: 1) sketches for houses of the familiar "modern Colonial" type in a "Town of Tomorrow" planned to cover ten acres at the New York World...