Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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LaGuardia's Kegling Sirs: TIME, for March 22. under Sport, states in connection with the American Bowling Congress, ". . . New York's plump little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia bowled the first ball. It rolled ignominiously into the gutter...
Last night I watched a newsreel in which Ed. Thorgerson was the sports spokesman. J showed New York's Nazifoe opening the event. His Honor threw a ball down the alley traveled smoothly and squarely down the boards to end in an eminently satisfactory strike...
...date of her employment, Jan. 13, 1936. ¶ To questioners at press conference the President reiterated that he knew nothing about plans to cut the price of gold as a check on inflation. ¶ President Roosevelt, with Harry Hopkins at his side, gave audience to Governors Lehman of New York, Benson of Minnesota, La Follette of Wisconsin, Quinn of Rhode Island, who urged him to maintain WPA rolls at their present size (2,200,000), which would make Relief costs about $1,750,000,000 for fiscal 1938, unbalance the budget by about...
...witness the first filibustering of the present session, southern Representatives, opposed to any kind of anti-lynching legislation, became strange legislative bedfellows of Representatives who wanted more drastic penalties than the Mitchell bill provided. This week, when the House considers the drastic anti-lynching bill sponsored by New York's Joseph A. Gavagan, southern members will have to seek other bedfellows. Negro Arthur Mitchell, whose bill provided only for the prosecution of law officers who allowed prisoners to be taken away from them and lynched, announced after his defeat that he would support the Gavagan bill, which provides...
...York's Senator Robert Ferdinand Wagner, proud author of the historic law thus confirmed, at once took to the radio. This day's decisions, he declared with German-born reverseness, ranked "alongside the work done in the days of John Marshall" (the crusty old Chief Justice who first declared an act of Congress un-Constitutional). Mr. Wagner warned Labor's foes: "Let no one any longer take the law in his own hands, through self-appointed interpreters of what the Constitution means, through hired police or spies. . . ." Had such an act as his been the law long...