Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secretly for what they called the Fourth International. No one took this seriously until July 1936, when the Fourth International set up a committee in Paris. Most observers, many Communists still belittle the Fourth International, yet last week such a reputable correspondent as "Augur" (Vladimir Poliakoff) of the New York Times was able to write of the ''Free International" as he prefers to call...
Thoroughly tired of his company's continuing to be to the Bolivian Government what the Jews are to Hitler and the Trotskyites are to Stalin, an unnamed Standard Oil official at New York last week exploded: "Preposterous, utter, sheer nonsense! We would not raise a finger or lift a telephone receiver to stir up trouble in Bolivia." Meantime, with the Bolivian press crackling away at the yanqis, President Toro quietly transferred Standard Oil's confiscated refineries to the Government-owned Yacimientos Petroleros Fiscales, prepared to give them a new whirl...
Delayed twelve hours by headwinds, the Hindenburg had reached Labrador at dawn. It swam slowly down the coast all day. At Portland, Boston and New London it dipped in courtesy gestures. About 4 p.m. it nuzzled in over Long Island to New York City, while six airplanes buzzed around it. With the sun glinting on its silver-grey sides and the four huge red swastikas on its fins, it circled once over Manhattan, then headed for its berth at Lakehurst. But a sharp thunderstorm came up and when he reached the Naval reservation, Captain Pruss took no chances, turned...
Taking off from New York's Floyd Bennett Field with Co-Pilot John S. Lambie in a twin-motored Lockheed Electra which once belonged to Harold S. Vanderbilt, he buzzed uneventfully to England, landed at North Weald. 15 mi. from London, to get his bearings, then went on to Croydon. His time: 21 hr. 3 min. His purpose: to fly pictures of the Coronation back to the U. S. He did not take with him newsreels of the Hindenburg disaster because London did not want that tragedy to punctuate its Coronation gaiety...
...start promoting pianolas for the Aeolian Co., later tried to make his own pianos, failed. In 1916, deciding he was a better promoter than manufacturer, Tremaine formed his still existing National Bureau for the Advancement of Music. Four years later he put on a celebration which he called New York Music Week. Other cities copied this week, and in 1924 they united for the first National Music Week. Each community celebration is fairly autonomous, appeals to the national committee only for advice, slogans, pamphlets. Otto Kahn gave $1,000 and became first chairman of the committee. When he died. David...