Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greensburg, Pa., en route to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Governor George Howard Earle suddenly shouted. "Look out; there comes another plane." His pilot swerved sharply upward, just in time to avoid a collision. For "covering" the Coronation of King George VI for Publisher J. David Stern (Philadelphia Record, New York Evening Post, etc.), Mrs. Huberta Potter Earle last week received $450, first money she ever earned, gave it to the Philadelphia Children's Heart Hospital...
Arriving in New York for a two-month U. S. lecture tour, Rev. Robert Anderson...
Racing for the America's Cup starts with a challenge to the New York Yacht Club, custodian of yachting's No. 1 trophy since 1857. It continues, when the challenge is accepted, with trials to select a defender. For the past month, in light, warm winds, three candidates for the honor of defending the America's Cup raced each other day after day on the sparkling summer ocean off Newport, R. I. They were Gerard B. Lambert's Yankee, Chandler Hovey's Rainbow and Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's new Ranger. Last week, the trials...
...American League team and a National League team, picked by fans' votes, has provided plenty of celebrities but undistinguished baseball. This year the fans had no say in the team selections and Managers Bill Terry and Joe McCarthy, who managed last year's pennant-winning New York Giants and New York Yankees, took their jobs seriously...
...last week's end the Chicago Cubs still had a two-game lead over the New York Giants in the National League race. Racing closely enough behind to produce another exciting finish such as has distinguished National League play every year since 1931 were the Pittsburgh Pirates (4½ games behind the Cubs) and the St. Louis Cardinals (5 games behind...