Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...helium, Senator King was to be recognized to call up the District of Columbia Airport Bill. The Helium Bill was passed as Senator King sat near Leader Barkley. He rustled his papers and prepared to get up with the Airport Bill but was slow on his feet. New York's Senator Robert Wagner rose and said: "Mr. President, I move that the Senate proceed to the consideration of Calendar No. 814, the bill ... to assure persons within the jurisdiction of every State equal protection of the laws and to punish the crime of lynching...
...question is on agreeing to the motion of the Senator from New York," rapped out the Vice President...
...Senator from Kentucky will permit the present occupant of the Chair to state that he had been so informed. . . . The chair looked around. . . . None was standing but the Senator from New York. ..." The rest of that day was given to the anti-lynching bill and Senator Borah, who believes it quite unconstitutional, proceeded to take it apart at leisure, while Leader Barkley stewed. By the close of the afternoon, Alben Barkley had another maneuver ready. He moved to adjourn (instead of recessing) overnight, which would have automatically cleared the calendar for a fresh start on another bill next...
...sketches were enthusiastically approved by Harry M. Durning, Collector of Customs for the Port of New York, but brakes recently applied on some forms of Federal expenditure stalled the project. Last week a compromise was effected. Artist Marsh, insisting that he was "keen as hell" to get his mural up at almost any price had himself enrolled as an Assistant Clerk in the Treasury Department's Procurement Division, salary 90? an hour, $1,560 a year, to paint his picture. Under him will be six assistants, listed as "artists" and drawing $1.60 an hour for a 15-hour week...
During his 17 years of assignments as Moscow correspondent of the New York Times small, blue-eyed, acute Walter Duranty (Write as I Please), an "effervescent little English expatriate with a faint air of skulldruggery about him," has acquired an impressive reputation not only as No. 1 U. S. foreign correspondent but also as the most official of unofficial U. S. ambassadors. Readers of his first novel, One Life, One Kopeck (titled after a Russian proverb meaning "Life is not worth a damn") may feel that Correspondent Duranty has now added to that reputation the right to be called...