Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late Andrew Carnegie posterity owes the Carnegie Foundation, a corporate angel to education, and the Carnegie Institute, an international showcase of the arts. It also owes an illustrious tablecloth which went on view last week at the Museum of the City of New York. As far back as 1887 it had been the great steel-master's fancy to provide his distinguished dinner guests with a soft pencil and a fresh section of damask on which to write their signatures. The autographs were preserved by being embroidered. Among them: Joseph H. Choate, Mark Twain, Myron C. Taylor, Elihu Root...
...populous New York State there are 38,000 trained nurses, graduates of accredited schools, who have licenses to practice. There are some 42,000 unclassified and unlicensed nurses. Most of these latter are competent, well-meaning "practical nurses" who have had some experience in caring for the sick and can help around the house. Some, however, are graduates of unaccredited schools, including "correspondence schools." A few are ignorant, crafty persons who pass themselves off as trained nurses. The pres-ent State law does not forbid unlicensed nurses to practice, or define the practice of nursing generally, or forbid unaccredited schools...
...week Assemblywoman Jane H. Todd introduced in both houses of the Legislature a bill designed to correct these shortcomings, to require all nurses to have some sort of license according to their training, skill and experience. Backed by many interested professionals and public-spirited citizens, and by the New York State Nurses Association, the Todd campaign got under way to a fanfare of agitation about "bootleg nurses." As horrible examples, the campaign literature cited: 1) a nurse who tried to feed a chop, two vegetables and a piece of pie to a child with a temperature...
During litigation over the late eccentric Colonel Edward Howland Robinson Green's $49,000,000 estate, on which approximately $6,000,000 inheritance tax is claimed by New York, Massachusetts, Texas and Florida, testimony was enterec by Housekeeper Ernestina Holcing, who said Colonel Green liked vaudeville billiards, Bromo-Seltzers, ergo, must be a New Yorker...
Died. Albert Ottinger, 59, onetime New York State Attorney General who, as Republican candidate for Governor in 1928, came within 25,564 votes of tying his opponent. Franklin D. Roosevelt; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...