Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Knowles Paine Travelling Fellowships in Music, of $1,500 each, to Arthur V. Berger 3G, of New York, N. Y., and Everett B. Helm 3G, of Minneapolis, Minn...
Founded in 1931 in the middle of the depression, a new organization, the Downtown Harvard Lunch Club in New York now has almost 600 members, boasts luxurious club rooms, ranks as the third largest Harvard Club in the Country...
...group of U. S. liberals revealed last week that they had formed an American Board of Guardians for Basque Refugee Children and were planning to import 500 young Basques to the U. S. Leaders in this movement of mercy were onetime New Dealer Gardner Jackson, New York's representative Caroline O'Day, Retiring President Mary Emma Woolley of Mt. Holyoke College, Professor James Thomson Shotwell of Columbia University. A French ship was reported on its way to Bilbao to collect the young Basques. The U. S. Consulate General in Paris was being asked for 500 temporary visitors...
...Yaleman born' (in New Haven, 1871) and bred (graduated 1895), he married a New Haven girl, got his first job as editor of the New Haven Morning News. From there he went to the New York Evening Post, then joined the staff of McClure's (with Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell) at the height of its brilliance. After eight years of reformist muckraking. Hendrick's journalistic training was nicely balanced by 14 on the late, colorless World's Work. For the last ten years, bespectacled, stately-domed Author Hendrick has devoted himself to writing books. Others: Life...
Haunting U. S. psychiatrists almost as much as it does their prospective patients is the alarming increase of modern mental diseases.* One out of every 22 persons, promises a New York State survey, may expect to spend some part of his life in a mental hospital. The gloomiest statisticians predict that in a couple of centuries everybody will be insane. The Mentally Ill in America is an authoritative, well-organized account of how the U. S. has coped with mental defectives thus far, attempts no predictions...