Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William T. Mossman, Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. executive who made news copy in the last Presidential campaign because he is an uncle of Alfred Mossman Landon. Young James went to Ohio State, studied chemistry and geology, taught swimming, worked in the oil fields of Texas, California, Pennsylvania. New York, South America. In Michigan he saw some experiments with acid, decided to move east and hang out his own shingle as a well doctor...
...Test consultant, was back from a European survey with $150,000 worth of krypton extracting machinery purchased abroad, to which he expects to add some refinements of his own. President of Duro-Test is a small, jovial Jew named Maxwell Monroe Bilofsky, who is a member of the New York Stock Exchange and keeps a ticker running in his downtown office. Dr. Bilofsky, who has no great love for his gargantuan competitor, General Electric Co., claims that General Electric-which has affiliations with Philips of Holland-has done its best for years to keep krypton lamps...
...most of its patrons think and that it is not run by a professional librarian. Last week the second of these peculiarities disappeared as Historian Robert Pierpont Blake announced that he was turning over his job as director to Keyes Metcalf, Chief of the Reference Department of the New York Public Library. Lean, reserved, thoroughly professional Librarian Metcalf, 47, who will also serve as college librarian, began his career as a page in the Oberlin College Library and graduated in 1914 from the New York Public Library training school. Broad, boy-faced Amateur Blake, 50, wants more time for Byzantine...
...First is the Library of Congress, second the New York Public Library...
...orchestra, sang and danced passionately around a plaster head on a property platter until her feet hurt and print dress was damp and dusty. She was Erica Darbo, the Scandinavian soprano whose U. S. debut set Cincinnati agog last February in Strauss' Salome, rehearsing for her first New York appearance. The night of the performance, in costume and against a background of stars and sultry violet, Miss Darbo gained full credit for the force and fury of her acting, but New Yorkers were not impressed with her wiry, imperfect voice, scarcely at its best in the open air. They...