Word: astoria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gates derived his nickname from rumors that million-dollar stakes were reached at his "ambling sessions in Manhattan's late Waldorf- Astoria hotel. He bet on anything, gambled in stocks, grain and cotton by day, at poker and faro by night. Starting as a farmer boy, he made and lost several seven-figure fortunes before he was 40. John Pierpont Morgan considered him unsafe as U. S. Steel Corp. director. On a visit to St. Charles he once gave a boyhood friend a $25,000 farm in return for a 5¢ cigar...
Died. Edward Francis ("Mister") Gallagher, 56, once famed comedy singer with Al ("Mister") Shean; for four years a paralytic cripple; in Astoria, L. I. Four times married, thrice divorced, once wealthy, "Mister" Gallagher died penniless, supported for the last three years by his third wife (Helen Rogers Gallagher...
Stepping out of a meeting of the Associated Press at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Manhattan, a multitude of publishers stepped into a meeting of the American Newspaper Publishers Association at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Manhattan. Two chief things they found to grow excited about in their 43rd annual meeting...
...late Clara B. Spence founded a school for girls. Extremely correct, it was on 48th street, just off Fifth Avenue-a school for gentlewomen. Even Manhattan's late Social Arbiter Ward McAllister approved. Last week in Manhattan's soon-to-be-destroyed Hotel Waldorf Astoria of which Arbiter McAllister also approved, 500 Spence alumnae and their parents gathered for dinner. Yale University's President James Rowland Angell and Steelman Charles M. Schwab were speakers. The news was that the Spence School, now no longer privately owned, has a new headmistress: Miss Helen Clarkson Miller, onetime associate principal...
While speculation has run wild over the destiny of the Waldorf-Astoria site, the shadow of a rumor of far more significance has fallen over another stretch of multi-million-dollar Fifth Avenue frontage. Frightened words have trickled from realtor circles to newspaper sanctums, and once or twice a timid hint has been printed...