Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shanghai. At the mouth of the Yangtze is commercially and financially the New York City of China. North of Shanghai coolies eat wheat and speak an approximation of Mandarin. South of Shanghai coolies eat rice and speak Cantonese. Until 1842 the Manchu emperors refused foreigners the right to trade at Shanghai, but in that year a British fleet sailed menacingly up the Yangtze and by a treaty signed at Nanking five Chinese cities were opened for trade and settlement. Subsequently most important of them was Shanghai...
...from the Russian Government as successor to certain nationalized concerns which had been in debt to the bank. When, by the Litvinov Agreement of 1933, Russia turned over its accounts to the U. S., the Guaranty Trust claimed the $4,976,722 could not be collected because of New York's statute of limitations. The bank won in the lower court, lost last week in the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Ruled Judge Thomas W. Swan: a statute of limitations cannot be invoked against the U. S. Government; to permit it against a sovereign foreign government would...
...publicize the Paris International Exposition, Minister Cot last fall suddenly conceived and as suddenly announced an air race from New York to Paris on May 21, tenth anniversary of Lindbergh's transatlantic flight. Prize was a whopping $135,000 and the race was to be run no matter how bad the weather (TIME, Sept. 7). This suicidal suggestion at once drew protests from airmen all over the world, including Lindbergh, who had not been consulted. Chastened Minister Cot then extended the starting period to a month and closed the race to all but multi-motored planes with radios...
...left Pan American in 1931. As general traffic manager for P. A. A., Jim Eaton was largely responsible for that great line's superb traffic system. He left to become president of ill-starred Ludington Air Lines, which tried to operate without a mail contract between New York and Washington, was eventually sold to Eastern. Since then Jim Eaton has been identified with an unsuccessful scheme to start flying boat service between Boston and Manhattan. Now he is vice president of new American Export Air Lines, Inc.. proposes to start test flights as soon as equipment...
Died. Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Gomez, 67, mother of ace New York Yankee Pitcher Vernon ("Lefty") Gomez; in Rodeo, Calif...