Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pleased to find in the May 10 issue of TIME an art map of New York City together with brief descriptions of several of the well-known museums...
...week of June 21 more than 4,000 librarians from all parts of the country will meet at he Waldorf-Astoria in New York City to attend the 59th Annual Conference of the American Library Association. I believe that many of them will plan to visit some of the museums and galleries which are shown on TIMES...
...York World's Fair of 1939 we cheerfully yield the International Bureau of Expositions' blessings. But we will concede to no one the exclusive use of the terms "International" and "World's Fair." America can well be proud of its two INTERNATIONAL expositions...
...Presented with a bill creating a commission and authorizing the appropriation of $5,000,000 for U. S. participation in the New York World's Fair of 1939, Franklin Roosevelt imposed the first veto of his second term.* His reasons: the sum was too large and the proposed commission (three Cabinet members, seven Congressmen) would be given complete authority for the expenditure of public funds, "an unconstitutional invasion of the province of the Executive." Congressmen sniggered publicly at both reasons...
...right ladies and gentlemen, I'm telling the people around me to shut their damned mouths. . . . Everything is lit up. The U. S. battleship New York provides a particularly brilliant spectacle. ... In a minute they are going to fire some rockets...