Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deserves one. Incidentally, it should be noted that Mr. Littauer is one of those private benefactors whom it has been the policy of the New Deal to discourage and that the occasion and object of his munificence is the New Deal itself. Rather a handsome return for disfavors. --New York Herald Tribune...
Andre Kostelanetz is a plump, semi-bald radio orchestra leader of high talent. Last summer he achieved the kind of publicity radiofolk dote on by flying from New York to Los Angeles and back on 13 consecutive week ends. In Manhattan he conducted a radio show; in Hollywood he would ask Lily Pons to marry him. On the 13th proposal she said, "Yes." Last week they were still unwed, but Musician Kostelanetz received a reward for his persistence...
Paralleling modern technological improvements, Nature too is speeding up. A Canadian lad has grown his fourth set of teeth at the age of twelve, and tulips are up already in Buffalo, New York. Science marches, on, and one Dr. Gamboa has discovered that the strength of a woman's handshake increases when she is pregnant. God knows...
...then persuaded two fishing organizations, the Federated Fishing Boats of New England and New York, and the Fishermen's Relief Corporation of Maine, to carry on the explorations under his direction. Accordingly the fishing schooner "New Dawn" was given over for this work, and, amid a fanfare of newspaper publicity, spent the month of October shrimp fishing...
Every state in the Union is represented in the American total and a majority of Central and South American countries as well. Massachusetts and New York provide more than half the student body with Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Illinois, Connecticut, and California together adding almost another quarter...