Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...success. He used to conduct a permanent but unavailing crusade to oust the late J. Henry Roraback, Old Guard boss of Connecticut Republicanism. In between times Mr. L&233;vitt sought unsuccessfully to oust the Connecticut Public Utilities Commission. He is also a chronic letter-writer to the New York Times...
Last summer this old fortress of personal good works turned with the times as its directors chose to succeed Founder Addams as head-resident an efficient, practised public charitarian. She was Charlotte Carr, executive director of New York City's Emergency Relief Bureau. A tall, hefty, genial spinster who studied at Vassar before the War, Miss Carr left her job as employment manager of Knox Hat Co. in 1923 and soon became acting director of the New York Labor Department's Division of Women in Industry under Frances Perkins. After that she served as director of Pennsylvania...
...question from the Birmingham News & Age Herald's Russell Kent caught Attorney-General Homer Stille Cummings off guard, forced him to admit that Mr. Heflin had been doing some kind of nebulous work for the Department of Justice since July 1936. Salary: $6,000 a year. The New York Sim's Phelps Adams dug deeper, learned just how much old Tom had to suffer in his supplication for jobs: after six months on the payroll, Tom had to wait more than a month before Mr. Cummings reappointed him, after that had to wait another month before he wangled...
...formality of electing New Jersey's Arthur T. Vanderbilt, who had been nominated by A. B. A. delegates last January, president to succeed Minneapolis' Frederick Harold Stinchfield. Lawyer Vanderbilt, 49, is a liberal Republican who, in addition to an active practice, has taught Law at New York University Law School for 23 years, been Chairman of the Judicial Council of New Jersey for seven...