Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said the Klan's Imperial Wizard Hiram Wesley Evans when reporters questioned him in Georgia: "I have not examined all the rolls of the Alabama Klan but I know Black is not now a member." Meanwhile the New York Times reported that Justice Black, vacationing in Paris, had dodged efforts of its correspondents to corner and question him. There was little wonder if Justice Black took refuge in the traditional prerogatives of the Nine Old Men of whom he now is one. Secure in a life job, he had little to worry about. If the past of the first...
...mighty Province which has more people, grows more food and manufactures more products than any other in Canada is fabulous Ontario-chiefly famed abroad for the Dionne Quintuplets. It is exactly 1,000 miles long by 1,050 miles wide-so big that the five States of New York, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota string the length of its southern border. Three years ago strapping, vigorous Ontario started taking the orders of a chubby, double-chinned, deep-dimpled, dynamic man she calls "Mitch." Two years ago he left her suddenly for Florida, announcing "I will retire from public life! There...
...their share of attack. At a press reception, smooth-faced Dr. Otto Dietrich, Nazi press chief, denounced freedom of the press in democracies as "a mask behind which . . . vultures hide their faces." U. S. correspondents smothered chuckles when the serious doctor declared that the duty of a New York journalist is to "tell lies and bow down in the temple of Mammon." Next day the U. S. correspondents facetiously organized the "Most Noble Order of Journalistic Vultures." Members, headed by a First Beak, will salute each other by placing thumbs behind their ears, flapping their fingers, emitting a throaty croak...
Though Bubbleman Bowman was soon rich enough to keep a private plane, all was not clear sailing for Gum, Inc. Beginning in 1930 Blony's vivid pink base was supplied by a New York druggist named Franklin V. Canning, who agreed to sell the material to Gum, Inc. at no higher price than it could be got for elsewhere, and who supplied working capital in return for 50% (250 shares) of the stock. In 1932 trouble arose because a Wrigley subsidiary developed a better base which undersold Canning's. Consequently altercations between Canning and President Bowman resulted...
...MAKING OF A SCIENTIST-Raymond L. Ditmars-Macmillan ($2.75). The Curator of Mammals and Reptiles at the New York Zoological Park writes informatively, amusingly of his adventures with the animals. Copiously illustrated...