Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best reporting of the American Legion parade in New York I find in TIME, Oct. 4, p. 12. It is to the point and unsurpassed...
...President this week chose as administrator of the U. S. Housing Authority, to set in motion the $526,000,000 low-cost housing and slum clearance program, small, slender Nathan Straus, 48-year-old scion of Manhattan's great philanthropic and merchandising family, member of the New York City Housing Authority and longtime student of slum problems...
...First extra session convened March 9, 1933. the week after he took office. *Harvard Professor Oliver Mitchell Weni-vvorth Sprague, in an address before the New-York Chapter of the American Statistical Association, published last fortnight in the New-York Times'?, Annalist...
...returned to New York to bury his wife, met a charming girl who called herself, somewhat interchangeably, Beula Benton Edmondson (her father was a Scotsman descended from a Norman knight who crossed the Channel with William the Conqueror), or Keetaw Kelantucky Sequoan (her mother was a Cherokee descended from Chief Sequoyah who invented the Cherokee alphabet). After a month's courtship he married her. Despite elaborate precautions to keep the time and place of the wedding secret, enthusiastic Tammany crowds jammed the streets for blocks. Dozens of New York's photographers turned out. To avoid their curiosity, Boss...
...property went to his wife. Suits to break the will were begun in Ireland, in Florida, in New York. Mrs. Croker soon developed a passion for litigation, before long was involved in an incredibly complicated tangle of lawsuits. Under the hands of lawyers the vast estate-during Florida boom years the waterfront property was valued at $10,000,000-withered. Pressed for cash, she mortgaged the prodigious Wigwam as well as her Irish castle...