Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adman and Author Bruce Barton entered unopposed the Republican primaries for a by-election for Congress in New York's silk-stocking 17th District. Said he: "The 17th pays a tremendous slice of the nation's tax bill. . . . Any nickel-in-the-slot district in the South or West gets more consideration in Washington. This is wrong...
...handicappers at new tracks narrow the limits of weights imposed on the entries, so that a very good horse need not carry much more poundage than a horse whose form is far less impressive. Through the sparkling spectacles of stern young John Hay ("Jock") Whitney-who, as a New York State racing commissioner, Jockey Club member, president of the American Thoroughbred Breeders Association and scion of a great U. S. turf family, typifies Saratoga's rich and formidable August colony-this seems a piece of gross misdoing. In the breakfast room of the gargantuan old Grand Union Hotel* last...
When the New York Yankees returned to New York last week for a series of baseball games with the Washington Senators, they were ten games ahead of the Detroit Tigers and it was generally considered that the Yankees had the American League pennant practically won. But they had just lost three straight games to the feeble Philadelphia Athletics, and the Senators had just stretched a winning streak to eight games. And there was also the problem of Yankee Pitcher Vernon ("Lefty") Gomez...
Last week, without challenging the merit of SEC's efforts to purify the issuance of new securities, the New York Stock Exchange, which has never openly attacked SEC, and Charles R. Gay (called the Exchange's "New Deal" president) broadly and frankly questioned the results of SEC's regulation of securities exchanges...
...soon made him famed all along the West Coast. In 1924, when he was 23, he sold his business for $48,000 to two New Yorkers and became a pie consultant in Los Angeles. He now has an office in Manhattan and 38 permanent clients, ranging from a New York bakery which pays him $6,000 a year for three visits of at least three days each to smaller bakeries which pay $300 a year. Married to a pretty girl who has never baked a pie, "Boston" Strause lives in hotels, annoys his wife by ordering pie and taking...