Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began to gather at dawn. When the doors opened several hours later, 3,000 rushed in and thousands more stood shivering on the sidewalks, waiting to hear the current musical idols of U. S. Youth-Benny Goodman and his swing band. The audience was jumping and shouting when New York University's Psychology Professor George Benjamin Vetter and the New York World-Telegram's crack Reporter Joseph Mitchell arrived to study the phenomenon. Reporter Mitchell...
...Manhattan hearings of rival claims of Massachusetts, Texas, Florida and New York for inheritance taxes on the $49,000,000 estate of the late capricious Colonel Edward Rowland Robinson Green (TIME, April 19, et seq.), the following evidence was introduced...
Pilot Jones, shrouded in whirling clouds, bucked the wind until he thought he was over Camden, then turned back to Newark. He missed Newark, missed New York, missed everything except a National Biscuit sign which flashed up once through the gloom, until he picked out an airway beacon...
Over three weeks ago a bitter ruction broke out in print among the elite of U. S. sportswriters when New York News Sports Editor Jimmy Powers reproached some of his fellows for an alleged alliance with sharp Promoter Mike Jacobs. New York Mirror Sports Editor Dan Parker countered that "Screwball Bowers" had "appropriated" word for word a Herbert Gorem sports story from the New York Sun, "used it ... in his syndicated out-of-town column...
Marion J. Pike New York Representative...