Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With all the vigor of a Roy Howard or Robert McCormick, Associate Editor Benjamin ("The Coast Kid") Benson of the Hobo News indignantly declared that things had come to a pretty pass when a journalist could not sell his own paper on the sidewalks of New York. Ready to back his editor to the limit of his resources, the News's Publisher Patrick Bernard ("The Roaming Dreamer") Mulkern and his associates furnished $10 bail when the judge refused to see the case in its broader aspects, issued a ringing statement...
...Hindenburg. Features include the running autobiography of Editor Benson; an itinerary of the best free rail route from Manhattan to the West Coast (Pennsylvania, Chicago & Alton, Missouri Pacific, Union Pacific, Denver & Rio Grande, Western Pacific) ; some fatherly counsel from Dean Danny O'Brien of the inter mittent New York Hobo College to incipient boes : "It is dangerous when bumming a lump [begging a handout] to tease or provoke the dog. . . . When through with cans, pans, etc. in jungles [hobo camps] always leave them clean. . . . Don't mix too much with tramps or bums...
...February 1923 wise old Mr. Root had vitalized the idea, secured from the Carnegie Corp. an initial $1,000,000 appropriation to organize the American Law Institute. He became its first president. Professor Lewis its director. To Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, then an associate judge of New York's Court of Appeals, creation of the A. L. I. signalized "to the world that laissez faire in law is going or has gone the way of laissez faire in economics...
Died. Effie Wise Ochs, 76, relict of Publisher Adolph S. Ochs of the New York Times, mother-in-law of the Times's Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger; of heart disease; in White Plains. N. Y. Her father, the late Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise of Cincinnati, founded Reformed Judaism...
...came from Messrs. Young & Kolbe. Rest of the sale price for control of Alleghany Corp. ($6,375,000) was made up by a promissory note for $2,375,000, payable in two years and secured by 1,200,000 shares of Alleghany common, last week selling on the New York Stock Exchange at $4 per share...