Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What would you say if he did?" the Duchess of York was asked by an intimate and candid friend...
Next Nazi victim to mock Winston Churchill was the British Booth freighter Clement, sunk between New York and Brazil in the South Atlantic by a "sea raider." And down went the Swedish steamer Gun, torpedoed off Jutland...
...Professor Karl N. Llewellyn, who suggested that educators find mass-production formulas that even mediocre teachers can use. Sample formula (to promote healthy skepticism): Let pupils be taught from the kindergarten to preface every "fact" thus: "My geography book says that Albany is the capital of New York"; "Mr. Smithers says that stealing is naughty"; "The Bugle says Japan is a menace"; "Candidate Loud says that Senator Louder is a liar...
September added over $6,000,000,000 to the value of New York Stock Exchange securities. But last week, stock prices marked time, the Dow-Jones average of 30 industrial leaders fiddled & fussed between the September 12 high of $155.92 and $150 (August 31: $134.41). September's stock buyers wanted to know if they had got ahead of the business procession, if so, how far. One reason why $87.50 seemed a more logical price than $100 for War Baby No. i Bethlehem Steel, was this kind of calculation: the very lowest estimate of September's gift...
Uncle Don last week became a wider problem. He started broadcasting for Maltex Cereal over five MBS outlets. His first week on the network won him a few plaudits, but generally the parents were slightly snippy. Said a Western New York Federation of Women's Clubs executive in Buffalo: "Uncle Don seems too juvenile even for juveniles." Snorted a Detroit parent: "That Snork...