Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Times estimate which included 1,500 who stood in the rain outside listening to loudspeakers. The antiC. I. O. New York Herald Tribune figured "20,000 to 30,000." Pro-Hague, the New York Sun shot the works...
...another preliminary in the form of a debate with Commonwealth & Southern's Wendell Willkie on the subject ''How Can Govern-ment and Business Work Together?" (see p. 32). On Jackson Day itself, Robert Houghwout Jackson modestly played second fiddle to Governor Lehman at the New York dinner, but before the dinner he made the one remark of the fiesta which may have tangible consequences. Asked whether he would run for Governor of New York next autumn, Mr. Jackson beamed: "If the Democratic Party wants me to be its candidate. I will...
...year's amendment to the judicial code, 78-year-old Willis Van Devanter deeply resented Franklin Roosevelt's implication that judicial gaffers were responsible for slowing up Federal court procedure. Last week, recalled to help clear the docket of the U. S. District Court for southern New York, Gaffer Van Devanter took the opportunity to put on a burst of speed that left habitues of the lower courts agape...
...sharp-eyed Willis Van Devanter in 28 years were a restaurant manager named Earl Frederick Palmer and his chef, Gabriel Morosi, charged with conspiracy and the passing of an altered $10.000 Treasury note which had been part of $2,000,000 stolen from United States Trust Co. of New York and Bank of Manhattan Co. in 1935-36. After tilting several times with celebrated Defense Attorney Samuel Leibowitz during the four days of the trial, Justice Van Devanter settled down to make his charge to the jury...
...meeting was an impossibility. One of Mayor Hague's speakers proclaimed at last week's rally: "I have lived here all my life and have never seen the day when I couldn't say anything I had on my mind." But next day a New York Herald Tribune reporter searched the city without avail for a man in the street who would talk for quotation about the state of civil liberties. The usual answer: "You know what might happen to a guy if he talks out of turn in this town...