Word: baruch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week in a voice that quivered from excitement, Crier Woollcott told his hearers that he had ''a news beat." He told that General John Joseph Pershing, visiting Financier Bernard Mannes Baruch on his Scotland estate, had gone grouse shooting. This in itself was not news; generals are expected to like to pull triggers now and then. The news was that General Pershing had been so careless as to hit in the face Supreme Court Justice Richard Paul Lydon instead of a grouse...
Newsmen, scarcely believing Cracker-shot Pershing could commit such an error, tried to verify the Woollcott beat. From Paris, the general was quoted as saying: "There is absolutely nothing to it." In Manhattan Financier Baruch insisted: "It is pure fiction. I ought to know...
Bernard Mannes Baruch, financier-philanthropist, chairman of the Saratoga Springs Commission of the State of New York, returned to the U. S. after inspecting medicinal springs in Germany, declared: "There were eleven men in the first cabin in the Berengaria who went to Germany to take the cure. They could have saved time and money by taking the waters of Saratoga and have received every bit as much benefit as they did abroad...
Chairman of a New York state commission to develop Saratoga Springs as a moderate-priced health resort is Bernard Mannes Baruch, Manhattan financier-philanthropist. His father, Dr. Simon B. Baruch of Camden, S. C., was one of the first to recognize Saratoga water's medicinal value. Last week Commissioner Baruch and a committee of U. S. physicians began a study tour of the spas of Germany, beginning at Bad Kissingen, Bavaria...
...that his achievements at Paris were far more significant than arrivals of visiting royalty, trans-Atlantic flyers, Channel swimmers. Behind the proposal the City Government, long habituated to receiving great personages amid blazing publicity, squarely placed itself. A welcoming commission, including Alfred Emanuel Smith, John Jacob Raskob, Bernard Mannes Baruch, Banker Charles Edwin Mitchell, Railroader Patrick Crowley et al. was duly named. Students of public psychology waited to see what pitch of enthusiasm could be aroused in the populace by a public reception to a man whose triumph was mental, not physical...