Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...objection to tea and coffee. We do have a . . . program against cigarets." Mrs. James Mabon of Montreal sketched the world-use of intoxicating beverages, said "under present conditions the world over not a single child is safe." Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, W. C. T. U. president for New York and wife of the Prohibition Party's candidate for President of the U. S. last year, censured the U. S. Government for having "invested $2,500,000 of taxpayers' money in rum distilling in the Virgin Islands. This is the first instance in history that our Government has gone...
...always trained to believe that the Church of England is governed by the several bishops reigning in their several dioceses. I now find it is come to be some kind of novel body governed by the British Broadcasting Corp. and by two archbishops, Canterbury and York. I do not like it." As soon as news of Vicar Jardine's bold gesture became known, however, the bold Bishop of Durham insisted that he had had nothing to do with it, would have strongly disapproved had he been consulted. But he pointed out that British clergymen on the Continent are outside...
...advised the late great Emperor Meiji. The ancient Prince had the very man groomed for such an emergency - dapper 45-year-old Prince Fumimaro Konoye, president of the House of Peers, an independent, nonparty aristocrat who was nominated for Premier three years ago while he was in New York taking the temperature of the U. S. about naval disarmament. He was then prevented from accepting by Prince Saionji because the time was not ripe...
...usual when things were not going too well, Rightists retaliated with a bloody shelling of the centre and working class district of Madrid. The New York Times's Correspondent Herbert L. Matthews had just emerged from the correspondents' hotel when one of the first shells smashed into it. Quickly he popped into Alfaro's haberdashery shop and began inspecting gloves. Shelling continued. Correspondent Matthews decided to look at handkerchiefs...
...Katie. It is at its best in earlier sequences showing Parnell speaking in Parliament at the time of the trial arising from the Phoenix Park case. Best bit part: Brandon Tynan, Dublin-born actor, who got 27 curtain calls the night in 1902 when he appeared in New York in the title role of a play about Irish Patriot Robert Emmet, as J. F. X. O'Brien, oldest member of the Home Rule Party...