Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unperturbed by a protest brought before the R. F. C. by the Board of Estimate and New York realtors, many of whose boxlike Bronx apartment houses are tenantless, Mr. Straus, Architect Stein and Andrew Eken announced: "The granting of the loan . . . marks, we hope and believe, a milestone in better housing for people of limited means. Governmental encouragement of such work will provide immediate employment for more than 1,000 men on the Hillside housing operation. . . . Further similar action on the part of Reconstruction Finance Corp. will provide the greatest possible stimulus to employment, as well as create a lasting...
Secretary of the Treasury Mills ($25,000), Ambassador Mellon ($25,000), Eldridge Reeves Johnson ($25,000), Edward F. Hutton ($20,000), Harvey Samuel Firestone ($12,500), Mrs. Andrew Carnegie ($10,000), Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. ($10,000), Harrison Williams ($10.000). John Pierpont Morgan ($5,000), Walter Clark Teagle ($2,500), Walter P. Chrysler ($1,000), William H. Vanderbilt...
...Binghamton, N. Y.. Supreme Court Justice Andrew J. McNaught granted a divorce to Catherine Koppe from Lillian Beaumont on the ground that, since the partners were both female, the marriage was void. In March 1927, wearing a clown costume, a man's wig and a van dyke beard. Lillian ("William") Beaumont appeared with Catherine Koppe before the Rev. Francis T. Cooke, saying they had just come from a masquerade, wanted to be married. He obliged...
...foul of the law when he tries to protect an old woman from the witch-finders; he and Julian and Parson Herrick take a tactical holiday to Cambridge, just then a political and poetical storm centre. There they meet Poets John Milton, supervising a performance of his masque, Comus, Andrew Marvell, Abraham Cowley, John Cleveland. Julian adores Cleveland, is happy when he condescends to make love to her. But the shadows fly fast: in a brawl between Cleveland and her Puritan brother, Julian is killed; England is split by its worst civil war; Parson Herrick goes back to his Devonshire...
...gift was officially recognized in the Probate Court yesterday. Theodora Lyman of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, was named as residuary legatee. The bequest will be known as the Andrew Preston Peabody Fund. The estate under the will, which was drawn in 1915, was estimated...