Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reserved an anchorage for the little destroyer Ciscar, was unable to send it because of pressing engagements with Generalissimo Franco, but 17 other foreign ships were present, starting with the little Estonian submarine Kalev and ending with the head of the line, the modernized U. S. battleship New York, flagship of the U. S. fleet during the World War. For a day retired Admiral Hugh Rodman, naval delegate to the Coronation, was back on her quarterdeck, flying his four-starred flag at her masthead...
Ecclesiastical dignitaries over the country applauded Cardinal Mundelein's denunciation. Somebody saw to it that a New York tabloid got a full page of pictures showing the ordered life of a Berlin monastery. Vatican churchmen declared that the Cardinal "had every right to speak his mind...
...journals, copies of everything from the Dubuque Catholic Daily Tribune to the weeklies America and Commonweal, intellectual high for the Catholic press, and the Paulist Fathers' monthly Catholic World. Most professional-looking was the weekly Brooklyn Tablet, whose front page is not unlike that of the New York Times. Oddest was the Catholic Worker, whose editors style themselves "Radicals of the Right," call on employers to recognize workers "not as wage slaves, but as brothers of Christ, members of the Mystical Body...
...devotee of the cartoon strip "Radio Patrol" in the New York American is one Harry Millstine, a resident of Queens Borough. Because he works in a filling station, Reader Millstine was professionally interested one day last week in a "Radio Patrol" sequence which depicted a gasoline vendor foiling a bandit by drenching him with the fuel hose...
Next day, the American moralized: "Sometimes it pays to read the funnies-particularly the New York American Comic Weekly...