Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Atlantic City's Hotel Claridge. Almost unmentioned by the Press and unannounced by the Boardwalk City's convention bureau, the meeting was blandly described by shippers as a "routine conference." After two days' quiet confab delegates as quietly departed for their home ports in London, New York and on the Pacific coast...
...Military Intelligence and attended the Versailles Conference as aid to the U. S. commissioners) left him with the feeling that the New Republic was a shade too theoretical. When he returned to the U. S. he soon left the New Republic for the late great New York World, as assistant and heir to the late and even greater Editor Frank I. Cobb. whose editorials provided for years the most trenchant criticism of what would now be called Old Deal Republicanism...
Before a battery of cameras in the office of Owner Horace Stoneham of the New York Giants one day last fortnight, Manager William Harold Terry tore up his fat contract which still had a year to run, signed a new one for five years upping his salary to a reported $40,000 a year, highest current in the major leagues. One day last week Manager Charles Dressen of the Cincinnati Reds quietly walked into the office of Owner Powel Crosley Jr., quietly walked out again without any contract at all. It was no coincidence that the Giants had just slipped...
...rebound. Since business news was neither good nor bad, the advance was ascribed to "technical reasons"-Wall Street's way of saying that everything which goes down must come up. But the market did not go up far, did not stay up long. Trading on the New York Stock Exchange, after soaring above 2,000,000 shares thrice in a month, fell back into its recent rut. By the peak of the rally, the Dow-Jones industrial averages had climbed only from...
...once with his opening shot in a tournament at Great Barrington, Mass, before a gallery of 300. Sandy Calder's luck is not limited to golf-he has made a huge success out of everything he has touched. Fourth of six brothers, he was born in New York City 51 years ago. At 25 he went to work as a salesman in the wood pulp & paper firm of Perkins-Goodwin Co. where his older brother Lou already had a job. Three years later Union Bag & Paper, biggest U. S. bagmaker, offered him $40 a week to come to them...