Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wholesale prices quoted last week for cases of 24 pint bottles included: WTood-ford Bourbon $27.50, King Cole Bourbon $35, Old Quaker Bourbon $38.50, Old Quaker Rye $42.50, Golden Wedding $43.50, Gibson $45 to $49-50, and $53-50 for Old Overholt, the good red liquor which, with Andrew William Mellon's aid, helped found the fortune of the late Henry Clay Frick...
...prosemen can command, with more care than most would be bothered to employ, Author Aiken's second novel is a distinct addition to U. S. letters. In any list of ten best U. S. novels of the year, Great Circle would have to have a place. Hero Andrew ("One-Eye") Gather is not prepossessing at first sight. A private tutor in Cambridge, Mass., Harvard graduate, intellectual in his late 30's, with a glass eye (unexplained), an increasingly unhappy marriage and a correspondingly increasing tendency to drunkenness, he has in his cosmos not only too much...
...When Andrew William Mellon looked about for a place to send his boy Paul to boarding school, he chose Choate School at Wallingford, Conn, largely because of a sturdy, athletic scholar on its faculty, Raphael Johnson Shortlidge. Son Paul also went to Mr. Shortlidge's summer camp in New Hampshire. In 1927, having served Choate for 17 years. Teacher Shortlidge was made headmaster of Storm King School (Cornwall-on Hudson, N. Y.). Last September he moved again, this time to Tome at Port Deposit, Md., few miles' up the Susquehanna River from Chesapeake Bay. Some 30 Storm King...
...late Publisher Frank Andrew Munsey scrapped seven Manhattan dailies during his career. *The estate of the late John Roll McLean owns also the troubled Washington Post, now in receivership. The Post's publisher, ousted last year, was John McLean's extravagant son Edward Beale ("Ned''). Last week "Ned's" estranged wife, Evalyn Walsh McLean, in hope of buying the Post for her three children, was trying to raise $250,000 on her jewelry, including the "unlucky," Sunday-supplement-famed Hope Diamond...
...Trot. Next year Miss Berry opened day schools, then a boarding school for boys, at $100 a year of which at least half was to be paid in work. She went north to raise money, got her first $50 in Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman's church in Brooklyn. Andrew Carnegie gave the first endowment money. Theodore Roosevelt and Publisher Adolph Ochs became interested, but endowments never kept pace with the Berry Schools' growth. Miss Berry needs $150,000 in gifts every year. Only entrance requirement for the Berry Schools is that one be too poor to go elsewhere...