Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Camp Dix, N. J., where as many as 63,848 soldiers were quartered simultaneously during the War and where 1,034 are still encamped on a 7,843-acre military reservation. Reasons for the change, recommended by the House Military Affairs Committee: Camp Dix is conveniently located between New York, where foreign silver shipments arrive, and the Philadelphia mint; adult soldiers can protect the treasure more efficiently than cadets...
...months ago. New York State police rediscovered La Verne Moore in Hollywood. Calif, using the alias of John Montague. In Hollywood, La Verne Moore's reticence about his past, his phenomenal golf and his high spirits had combined to make him a highly publicized social lion, crony of cinemactors like Bing Crosby. Oliver Hardy and Guy Kibbee (TIME. July 19). Identified by his fingerprints, La Verne Moore was extradited and brought back to the Adirondack summer resort of Elizabethtown, N. Y. for trial. First stage in the case of People of New York v. La Verne Moore took place...
...Elizabethtown Court House, in 1859 John Brown's body lay in state for days before he was buried at nearby North Elba. Last week it was packed with Elizabethtown's summer visitors. Nattily dressed in Hollywood sports-spectator clothing, La Verne Moore heard New York State Supreme Court Justice O. Byron Brewster deliver a scholarly oration, then grant his application for bail ($25,000). Said Judge Brewster in part...
Less than 24 hours after the death of Andrew Mellon (see p. 12), whose $9,000,000 art gallery for the city of Washington he had designed, Architect John Russell Pope died last week in Manhattan. The New York Times and Herald Tribune carried eulogistic editorials, at once praising and commemorating the era of U. S. architecture in which Pope ranked as a master...
Famed because it still uses simplified spelling ("Club Kalendars ar being maild well before Christmas"), the Lake Placid Club in New York's Adirondack Mountains is rich, regards itself as a solid U. S. institution. Year ago, as a fillip to U. S. music, the Club announced two prizes for new compositions by U. S. citizens: $500 for a choral work, $1,000 for a quintet for piano and strings...