Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Investigation in Washington found much truth in the story. Russian agents have talked with Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. Ltd., Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. and New York Shipbuilding Corp. The State and Navy Departments have been approached for consent to the plan. Because Russia is not a belligerent in any war, the State Department would be forced to grant licenses, the Navy Department's only objections being that they would not allow the shipping abroad of 16-in. guns, a U. S. specialty, nor may Navy proving grounds be used to test the quality of guns or armor plate...
...most talented babes of Babes In Arms are apparently not even eligible to operate a motor vehicle at night in New York State, where full driving privileges begin at 18. One is Mitzi Green, a stripling advertised as 16 who used to be a child star in the films, progressed to a juvenile radio program which she surprisingly forsook this winter to entertain at a Manhattan night club called Versailles, a house where innocence is as rare as courtesy. There Miss Green did impersonations, the most painful of which-a re-enactment of Luise Rainer's big sob scene...
...years John L. Casey has led parties of New York school children through the State Museum in Albany's State Education Building, faithfully explained the prehistoric skeletons and the lifelike reproductions of Cayuga and Mohawk tribesmen, in which interest is perennially strongest. Last week Guide Casey declared that he was thoroughly tired of modern moppets who lead him a romping chase through the exhibits, make sport of his educational efforts. Said he: "Kids are worse than they ever were. They used to play tag around the mastodons and the paleozoic fossils. Now they're not content unless they...
Buffalo's white stone St. Joseph's Cathedral is probably the only one in the world whose steeple is in its cellar-placed there some years ago when faulty construction necessitated pulling it down. In St. Joseph's last week New York's Archbishop Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes presided at the installation of Buffalo's seventh Catholic Bishop, Most Rev. John Aloysius Duffy, 52. A strapping, twinkling-eyed onetime boilermaker who, it is said, still holds a union card, Bishop Duffy taught at Seton Hall College in South Orange, N. J., whence he used...
...York and West Virginia Legislatures passed laws requiring three days' notice of intention to marry. To the conservative clergy's satisfaction, out of business went blatant, self-advertising ministers in West Virginia's "Gretna Green," Wellsburg. In Westchester County, handy to Manhattan, justices of peace found a profitable hasty-wedding trade cut off. Likewise in Maryland a two-day law disposed of a once-popular maritopolis, Elkton...