Word: yorker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...winning tickets have turned out to be impoverished eccentrics whose extravagances made good newspaper reading. The list of last week's major winners suggested that sweepstakes are currently attracting a more substantial but less colorful clientele. Miss Martha Wellington, secretary to the advertising manager of The New Yorker, Mrs. Fannie Lebowitz of Albany, N. Y., a 71-year-old Salem, Mass, bachelor named Amos Strout, a firm of two Lynn, Mass, telephone operators, and a Hollywood billing clerk each won $150,000 with tickets on Reynoldstown. Mrs. Lebowitz said she planned to "make everybody happy." The rest said nothing...
Representative, who was once a Senator, further declared that the Federal Communications Commission, though empowered to examine telegraph companies' records for its own purposes, had no power whatever to seize private correspondence transmitted by these common carriers. That "pillage," cried the New Yorker, was an act of "terrorism" which led straight to political blackmail...
Evidently of much sterner stuff than its tipsy neighbor on Oxford Street, Memorial Hall early yesterday morning remained unshaken in the face of concerted bombing by several Freshmen. Several months of plotting, a dozen copies of the New Yorker, and quantities of glue, canvas, and guncotton went into the production of a bomb eighteen inches long and five inches in diameter...
...play parlors. Emil Hurja started the Breckenridge American. All his life he had been familiar with mining in Michigan, Montana and Alaska. Oil drilling was a kindred occupation and in a few years his paper gained considerable reputation in mining and oil circles. One day a New Yorker dropped in to ask him a few questions. The upshot was an invitation to go to Manhattan and work for Joseph D. Gengler, specialist in mining securities on the New York Stock Exchange...
PROFESSOR SANTAYANA, publishing his first novel at seventy-two, has electrified the literary world. In feature reviews in the New York Times, Herald-Tribune, the New Yorker and Time, his book The Last Puritan, was fervently acclaimed as one of the greatest accomplishments of the contemporary era. For a fuller and more authoritative criticism than the Bookshelf can possibly provide the reader is referred to these reviews,--especially to Ellen Glasgow's-in the Herald-Tribune...