Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rober P. Brown of New York City has been named winner of the Sophomore crew managerial competition it was announced yesterday. William van V. Lidgerwood '39 becomes second assistant associate manger. Brown who was Freshman manager last year this will become manager of the crew...
Effect of the legislation would have been to bar from Ohio whiskeys distilled in such big producing States as Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland and Pennsylvania; brandies from California and New York; rum from Massachusetts. Upon hearing English-educated Mr. Morgan's distasteful forecast, Ohio's legislators killed the measure...
Hired by Lennen & Mitchell to do the job for Lorillard was a firm called Publishers Service Co., Inc., previously employed by Publisher Julius David Stern to cook up rebus contests for his Philadelphia Record and New York Post. In the Post building on Manhattan's West Street, Publishers Service has barnlike offices furnished principally with a good set of dictionaries. Genius of the place is lanky, sandy-haired Frederick Gregory Hartswick, a Yale high-jumper of the class of 1914 who made puzzles a profession, ran the puzzle page on the old New York World and has been getting...
William Kidd was a Scotsman born (about 1645), though his parentage is as much in doubt as his early life. A seafaring man of some sort he became, and by the time he was 45 he was well known in the little colony of New York as a competent skipper and a man of substance. Where he learnt his competence and where he got his substance is conjectural: probably the East Indies. As a citizen of Manhattan, Kidd married a twice-widowed lady, built a house on the Hudson and traded in real estate. One of the lots he sold...
...line between hijacker and bootlegger. The scheme that led Captain Kidd to the gallows, according to Author Wilkins, was a technically legal venture in privateering. And it was not Kidd's idea in the first place. Robert Livingstone of Albany and Lord Bellomont, Governor of New York, concocted the scheme, got Kidd a letter of marque from William III and sent him out on the Adventure Galley to prey on pirates and incidentally make his backers some money...