ARBITRATION COURT GIVES OUT ITS RULES
New York Times. Jan 7, 1923
The rules for the conduct of the Court of Arbitration, formulated with the advice of the leading Judges in New York State, were made public yesterday by the Arbitration Society of America. They were drawn up by a committee consisting of Justice Charles L. Guy of the Supreme Court, former United States Senator James A. O'Gorman and Frank H. Sommer, Dean of the New York University Law School.
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DETECTIVES TO INSURE PRIVACY TO M'CORMICK
New York Times. Feb 10, 1923
CHICAGO, Feb. 9 -- Special interviewers who would inquire into the plans of Harold F. McCormick and his wife, Ganna Walska, are informed that henceforth they will not be received. A reporter calling at the McCormick mansion today was stopped by guards, who turned out to be four operatives especially engaged to keep newspaper men who would interview them away from the McCormick place while Mr. McCormick and his wife are in residence.
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METHODISTS DEMAND ARMY DRINK INQUIRY
New York Times. Mar 18, 1923
WASHINGTON, March 17. -- Under the heading "Turn On the Light," a demand that the Secretaries of War and Navy do everything possible to find out if officers named in a recently published Washington bootleggers' list actually bought liquors from this man was made by the Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church today.
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New Ideas in Sleeping Cars To Make Night Travel Easy
New York Times. Apr 27, 1924
BACK in 1860, when a man went away to do overnight traveling by railroad, his family felt that he would never be quite the same again. Night traveling then was done in day coaches. Survivors reported that an hour spent this way seemed to take up six hundred minutes, and that destinations appeared to lead the trains a merry chase instead of waiting to be arrived at.
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DAVIS SENDS THANKS BY RADIO TO M'ADOO
New York Times. Jul 13, 1924
LOCUST VALLEY, L.I., July 12. -- Today, for the first-time since his nomination last Wednesday at the Democratic National Convention, John W. Davis spent a day at home with his family. It had been his intention to make his week-end visit one of rest and to meet only a few friends.
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CHARGES BY ALIEN DENIED BY CURRAN.
New York Times. Jul 18, 1924
Charges of mal-administration on Ellis Island were made yesterday by Miss Anna Hans, a trained nurse from Germany, who was deported on the Hamburg-American line steamship Westphalia on the ground that she was in danger of becoming a public charge. Commissioner of Immigration Henry H. Curran later denied all of the charges specifically.
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PRINCE'S RANCH AWAITS HIM.
New York Times. Sep 4, 1924
TORONTO, Ontario, Sept. 3. -- W.L. Carlyle of Calgary, manager of the Prince of Wales's ranch in Alberta, is here. When asked about the Prince's visit, he said.
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ASK ARMY TO HELP SOLVE GIRL MURDER
New York Times. Sep 19, 1924
Believing that they have eliminated most other suspects in the Elizabeth Johnson murder case, the authorities of Middlesex County, New Jersey, have asked the assistance of the War Department in finding Harvey Selhaver of Spencer, Iowa, whom they are eager to question. Selhaver was a farmhand on the Johnson place, and was discharged because of his attentions to the 15-year-old girl, just a week before Elizabeth was slain on the edge of Carnegie Lake in Kingston, N.J.
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MRS. COOLIDGE RETURNS TO SIMPLE LIFE
New York Times. Aug 9, 1925
NO trespassing." In black letters the warning is painted on a small signboard that rises six inches above the tops of the swaying blades of grass that make the soft green carpet of the White Court lawn. Nothing on the sign indicates that it is a warning to keep the curious off the property of the Summer residence of the President of the United States, for beneath is the modest statement -"Private property of F.E. Smith."
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NEW YORK'S 100 NEEDIEST CASES
New York Times. Dec 6, 1925
IN New York City there are one hundred cases which, above all others, require aid. They are the first call on charity. They should be considered first as Christmas time approaches.
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COMPLAIN OF BUS 'PEEPERS'
New York Times. Mar 13, 1926
WASHINGTON, March 12 (AP). -- Residents of this city who generally occupy the position of sideline spectators as national issues come and go, or linger forever, in Congress, now have an issue of their own that threatens to divide them into two factions -- those who ride the upper deck of passenger busses and those whose second floor bedrooms may be viewed by the former.
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BOOK ON NOTABLES MAKES LONDON GASP
New York Times. Nov 20, 1926
LONDON, Nov. 19. -- Woodrow Wilson, Lady Astor, Walter Hines Page and Mark Twain figure, with European monarchs, statesmen and other world-famous celebrities, in "The Whispering Gallery," a book by an unnamed author, which, published today, is the sensation of the hour here, and is inspiring the question. "Who wrote it?" from thousands of readers who are chuckling with glee, gasping with amazement or quivering with anger as they peruse its pages.
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PRESS EXECUTIVES CONDEMN TABLOIDS.
New York Times. Feb 10, 1927
Revolt against tabloid newspapers spread yesterday to a luncheon of the Broadway Association at the Hotel Astor, where editors and business executives of other New York newspapers denounced the picture papers for exploiting indecent news in their daily issues.
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