Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jewish women are forever holding meetings in New York City. New York's 54-year-old Mayor, short, swart Fiorello Henry LaGuardia, is forever making speeches. No one would have paid much attention to a speech he made last week before the Women's Division luncheon of the American Jewish Congress at the Hotel Astor if the German press had not burst out after it in a paroxysm of rage prodigious even for Naziland...
Cause of Germany's paroxysm was found to be a proposal by Mayor LaGuardia that adjoining a proposed "temple of tolerance" at New York's 1939 World's Fair there be erected "a chamber of horrors" containing a figure of "that brown-shirted fanatic who is now menacing the peace of the world...
...about another passage in the "dirty Talmud Jew's" remarks. He had also said: "I mean the Hitler Government . . . irresponsible . . . because it is . . . financially bankrupt." And a statement much more injurious to Germany than Mayor LaGuardia's appeared last week on the front page of the New York Times, in a cable from Berlin Correspondent Otto D. Tolischus calling German finance "a blacker art than ever...
Most notorious ship in the world last Jan. 6 was a blunt-nosed little Spanish freighter named Mar Cantabrico. With $720,000 worth of second-hand U. S. airplanes for Spain's hard-pressed Reds, she lolloped out of New York harbor and over the Three-Mile Limit only one hour before the House passed a bill making such shipments illegal. As she chugged off to Vera Cruz to pick up $1,300,000 more in munitions, disgruntled U. S. neutralityites opined that though she had passed the Scylla of Congress she might have greater difficulty avoiding the Charybdis...
Died. Dr. William Temple Hornaday, 82, caustic, crusading wild life conservationist, first director of the New York Zoological Park (1896-1926); after long illness; in Stamford, Conn...