Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...closing days of Congress, when every minute of the Senate's time was plotted out, he fell asleep at the switch. Senator King who was supposed to rise at a certain moment to present the District of Columbia Airport Bill, missed his cue and before Senator Barkley woke New York's Senator Wagner had the floor. Senator Wagner brought up the Wagner-Van Nuys Anti-Lynching Bill. Although Alben Barkley has cast a good Southern vote against anti-lynching bills in the past, he was caught in a legislative trap. To prevent a new filibuster from wrecking the closing hours...
Deal satellites, onetime braintruster Adolf Augustus Berle Jr.. President Charles Taussig of American Molasses Co. of New York (present employer of Rexford Guy Tugwell) and Philip Murray, able chairman of C.I.O.'s Steel Workers Organizing...
Born in Chicago 35 years ago, son of a Swedish father and a Norwegian mother, Author Lundberg got his start as a police reporter in purple days of Chicago gangdom. That road led to United Press and finally to the New York Herald Tribune as a Wall Street reporter. His toughest assignment was the 1929 crash. In 1934 he quit reporting to write Imperial Hearst, which was successful enough to maintain him and his Vassar-graduate wife in a bookish Manhattan apartment. With the help of General Johnson and Secretary of Interior Ickes, who used the title for the theme...
Virgin Birth. Historical evidence is "inconclusive," although the Archbishop of York believes in it, as he does in the Resurrection, which the commission calls "the central fact in human history...
...think of itself as an institution in which believers of various sorts might find themselves at home seemed evident last week in a 242-page report on Doctrine in the Church of England, product of 15 years of work by a commission now headed by the Archbishop of York. A painstaking, thoroughly British job of Yesing-&-noing, the report, if adopted by the convocations of Canterbury and York, would put the Church on record as being either completely vague or both for-&-against on practically all controversial issues. Some of the issues and the commission's findings...