Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York as in many another big city and in many another crowded profession, Jewish dentists once felt that the clique which managed the local subdivisions of the American Dental Association discriminated against them. Eventually they banded together with similarly distressed Jewish dentists in Newark, Passaic, Westchester County and Montreal and formed the Allied Dental Council. This happened 24 years ago. The Council now has 3,000 members, is conservative, and now admits non-Jews who are not antiSemitic...
...Sears, 47, onetime professor of prosthetic dentistry in New York University, took his stance between the rami of a huge artificial jawbone. The over-size was necessary to illustrate his points clearly. These were...
...During the Depression, many a school board slashed salaries which teachers believed were guaranteed by contract. The West New York, N. J. Board of Education in 1933 ordered reductions ranging from 10% to 15%. Principal J. E. Dransfield of Hudson Heights Grammar School has since been conducting a "friendly" legal campaign for 95 of his fellow West New York teachers to determine whether their contracts were binding under the State's Tenure Law of 1909. The cuts were last week finally upheld by the U. S. Supreme Court, which unanimously ruled: "The Act of 1909 . . . was but a regulation...
...Elmira, N. Y., high-school mathematics teacher because she was expecting a baby. Two months after her blue-eyed son was born, she unsuccessfully demanded to be put back to work. Although she is now teaching in a grade school, her lawyer husband Anthony has carried through the New York courts a suit for the pay she would have earned during her compulsory leave. Last week he carried it for the second time to the U. S. Supreme Court, which again refused him a rehearing...
World capital of the sport of figure skating is London, which has six indoor rinks to New York's two, and an amazing number of high-grade figure skaters. The women's figure skating championship of the world was held in London in 1928 and again last week. Winner in 1928 was Sonja Henie, in the second year of her ten-year career as the world's ablest woman skater. Last spring Sonja Henie stopped skating in tournaments to skate in the cinema and last week's winner, heir to Miss Henie's title...