Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...served his alma mater, Knox College, as president, 1892-99. He was professor of politics at Princeton from 1900 to 1903, president of the College of the City of New York...
That he will stick his chin out and let the ANPA, in for labor troubles, those close to Jim Stahlman deny. Routine ANPA work continues under the supervision of well-seasoned Lincoln B. Palmer who has been ANPA's paid manager at New York headquarters for 34 years...
Hannan last week was the figure of a walking boy and the motto "a la Sainte Terre" (to the Holy Earth). "I designed the medal years ago," finished Dr. Finley. "It was when I was Commissioner of Education for the State of New York. I visited a home for incorrigible boys about 30 miles from my office at Albany. I talked to them about walking and promised a medal to the first boy who would walk to my office. One day six of them arrived. I had the medals made, walked the 30 miles to the school and delivered them...
...associate editor of the New York Times since 1921, Dr. Finley has been that newspaper's great ambassador of goodwill, speaker of baccalaureates, captain of causes. Thirty-one honorary degrees have been showered upon him, including 19 LL.D.s. In 1927 he received three LL.D.s, one J.U.D. Foreign governments have awarded him 13 decorations. His long career has been distinguished in scholarship...
...Current German-born Senator: New York's Robert Ferdinand Wagner...