Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week came Franklin Roosevelt's turn to compare himself to a great President and, being a good Democrat, he picked Andrew Jackson. The occasion was the Democratic Party's Jackson Day Dinner in Washington. The meal cost 2,000 diners $50 per plate- $5 for food and $45 for the Party's campaign chest. When he had eaten tomato stuffed with lobster, diamondbacked terrapin soup, breast of capon, hearts of palm salad and other things, the 32nd President of the U. S. arose and broadcast as follows on the 7th President...
...venturing to place the whole Empire under non-Ethiopian supervision, envisioned the granting to Italy of preponderant influence over somewhat less than the southern half of the country (TIME, Dec. 23). Deal No. 2 was drafted by the Emperor on the advice of his trusted Yankee friend, Mr. Everett Andrew Colson. It resembles Deal No. i in so many vital respects as to suggest that Premier Pierre Laval and Sir Samuel Hoare were not indulging in hypocrisy when they voiced confidence that Deal No. i was acceptable at least as a basis for negotiation to Italy, Ethiopia and the League...
Grandson of Distiller Abraham Overholt, Henry Clay Frick laid the foundation of his great fortune in Pittsburgh coke ovens. Shrewd little Andrew Carnegie bought an interest in Frick Coke Co., made Frick a Carnegie partner in 1889. The partners never liked each other. It was not until 1900 that they broke in what was to be one of the classic feuds of U. S. industry. When Partner Carnegie tried to force Partner Frick to sell out on his own terms, Partner Frick chased him down the office building corridor. Thereafter both men were more or less free to indulge their...
...Andrew Carnegie built a block-long palace on Fifth Avenue, which cost a little over...
Shuffling past all these at a special preview last week went Andrew W. Mellon, his daughter Mrs. David Kilpatrick Bruce. John D. Rockefeller Jr., Junius Morgan, Miss Helen Frick and five members of her family, besides some 700 other socialites, to the great delight of society reporters. Almost unnoticed in the pack was a little old lady in a black hat: Mrs. Andrew Carnegie setting foot in the Frick house for the first time in her life...