Word: benjamin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Since the futile reorganization last year Architect Benjamin Marshall has really run the Drake. An assiduously bohemian gentleman in a flowing black tie, he lives in a famed pink house on the shores of Lake Michigan in Wilmette. His particular joys are a ship-cabin taproom and a handsome table that sinks through the floor. Ben Marshall lightened the tone of the Drake, installed an oyster bar, started serving 50? buffet lunches and $1 buffet Thursday night dinners which were jammed all last winter. It was also Ben Marshall & friends who, under a lease from Metropolitan Life, reopened the Blackstone...
Until last year the Brothers Drake held a contract to manage the Drake Hotel for $40,000 a year, plus living expenses for them and their families and 10% of all profits in excess of dividends. After $300,000 of back taxes had accumulated, the stockholders, including Architect Benjamin Marshall (of both the Blackstone and Drake), Vincent Bendix and the McCormick estate, put through a voluntary reorganization. Metropolitan Life extended its $4,000,000 mortgage and $180,000 in defaulted interest and loaned the hotel enough to clean up the taxes. As their contribution the Brothers Drake tore up their...
...benefactions. Their choices also reflect political changes and emergences of new public characters. Among the leading degree-getters of a year ago, with three degrees each, were Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, new Supreme Court Justice, and Stanley King, new president of Amherst College. The Republican administration was represented by Secretaries Mills. Adams and Wilbur, Vice President Curtis. Mrs. Hoover (two degrees) and President Hoover who in absentia got one more for his collection...
Perhaps the President had in mind some particularly deserving mainland Democrat whom he wished to put into a particularly soft berth. But the only Democrat thus mentioned last week was Benjamin Barr Lindsey, disbarred juvenile court judge of Denver and few party leaders thought he rated the appointment...
...Coolidge, proud descendant of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge. Her husband, Richard J. Hall, was a doctor who practiced briefly in California. After his death she returned to Boston, became one of the first U. S. saxophonists, brought up two daughters: Mary Coolidge Hall who lives in Newton, wife of Lawyer Benjamin Loring Young; and Elise Hall, late wife of Arthur S. Pier who teaches at St. Paul's School. The "Boston" Coolidges are no kin to Vermont's late Calvin Coolidge or to Senator Marcus Allen Coolidge...