Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...office," says he, "began early and has been unremitting all these years." Offices he says he has turned down: New Jersey legislator, U. S. Representative and Senator, U. S. Commissioner of Education, U. S. Ambassador to London or Berlin, U. S. Secretary of State (offered by President Harding), New York City's Mayor, New York's Governor. But Republican politicians have long known there was one office Nicholas Murray Butler coveted. Biggest Butler boom for President came in 1920, when his supporters, to bring him down to the voters' level, coined the slogan: "Pick Nick...
...Panama Canal, Trans-Siberian Railroad, Boulder Dam, New York's subways, many U. S. railroads, were built with Marion shovels (now no longer steam, but electric & Diesel driven). Monster of the Marion line is a $450,000 strip coal mining shovel, which can scoop up 50 tons of earth, dump it on top of a seven-story building 226 feet away...
...death. There is little chance that any friend knows she is there. After her trial she managed to scribble a note for Mark, her son, and give it to Fritz, the surly old servant of the Ritters who had been brought to testify. But Mark is in New York, and Fritz may not have dared or cared to mail it to him. Emmy no longer has influential friends; she has lived for 23 years in America. There is only Anna Hoffman and young Dr. Bitten...
...Greenville, Miss.; Edward A. Wyatt 4th, 29, of the Progress-index, Petersburg, Va.; Weldon B. James, 26, foreign correspondent of the United Press; William B. Diekinson, Jr., 30, Northwest news manager of the United Press, Minneapolis, Minn.; Volta W. Torrey, 34, news review editor of the Associated Press, New York City; William P. Vogel, Jr., 28, city hall reporter of The New York Herald Tribune; Oscar J. Buttodahl, 35, editor of The Leader, Bismarck, N. D.; Glenn C. Nixon, 31, economic reporter on The United States News, Washington, D.C.; Edward Allen, 33, of The Boston Herald; and Steven M. Spencer...
...list of dinner speakers for the first half year has already been drawn up by Mr. Lyons. Included in the list are: Joseph Pulitzer, publisher, St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Raymond Clapper, Washington commentator; Mark Ethridge, general manager, Louisville Courier Journal; Arthur Sulzberger, publisher, New York Times; Arthur Krock, Washington correspondent, New York Times; Lucien Price, editorial writer, Boston Globe; and Harry W. Frantz, chief of foreign correspondents of the United Press, Washington. According to present plans the dinners will be held at the Signet Society clubhouse on Dunster Street and be open only to the Nieman Follows...