Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Dr. Kopetzky appeared at the American Medical Association convention with a set of public health axioms, based on Miss Lape's survey and a survey by the New York State Medical Society. The A. M. A.'s executives and trustees were vigilantly prepared to balk Dr. Kopetzky's plan-for the minor reason that Miss Lape had not consulted them, for the major reason that it predicated a drastic reversal of Orthodox Medicine's most basic tenets...
...capstone to the Golden Gloves Boxing tournaments run by newspapers in three U. S. cities, the New York Daily News last week staged in Yankee Stadium its third international meet between selected U. S. Golden Glovers and eleven topnotch Italian amateurs. Cabled Il Duce: "Be tenacious, sporty and sprightly. . . ." In flocked some 55,000 fight fans, an estimated 70% of them Italian, began booing when Gavino Matta, Italy's flyweight champion, lost the second bout on the program to pint-sized Negro Bobby Carroll of Trenton. Only knockout of the evening was scored by Willie Smith, Harlem featherweight...
...lovers on two continents came to the defense of this noble breed's original strain. Newspapers as far removed in editorial policy as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and New York Sun published editorials urging mercy. The St. Bernard, said the Sun, "ought in fairness to be judged by his long and respectable history, not by the crimes of an occasional rogue...
...were jobless musicians from Local 802, biggest branch of the American Federation of Musicians. They had come well-supplied with cigarets and sandwiches and prepared to stay in their seats until RKO Service Corp. should agree to hire two movie-house orchestras for its theatres in each of New York's five boroughs. By the time they had seen the fifth run of the Palace's double feature, many of Local 802 were asleep. Others massed in the men's room to eat, smoke and converse. Somebody connected with the theatre turned off a water-cooler...
...convention was to decide what might be done about "canned" music. Boss James C. ("Mussolini") Petrillo of the Chicago chapter was out to make national the ban on recording which he enforced locally on union men last winter (TIME, Jan. 4). A.F.M.'s President Josephs Weber of New York may have doubted the wisdom of such drastic action but his hand was being forced. When election of national officers of the A.F.M. is held, Chicago's Petrillo will make a strong challenge for the national presidency, held by New York's Weber since...