Word: block
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fate of the other buildings in the block to be occupied by the new house unit has not yet been definitely determined...
...years Publisher Paul Block has been expanding his business, buying a newspaper here, a newspaper there. Today he owns the Newark Star-Eagle, the Brooklyn Standard-Union, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and two other dailies. All are profitmakers...
Last week Publisher Block began a new chapter in his journalistic adventures. But this time he did not buy a newspaper. Instead, he acquired the sole right to sell all the national advertising space for William Randolph Hearst's New York American. The agreement came thus: To Publisher Hearst, as is generally known, the American is more of a political pride than a profitable joy. Sometimes it makes money; more times it does not. Not long ago, with this fact in mind, Publisher Hearst cast his eye about, saw Pub lisher Block making money as a com petitor...
Jimmy Walker had a box but Manhattan had a police parade so Jimmy stayed at home. Walter J. Salmon, whose Dr. Freeland won the Preakness, was there and so was Publisher Paul Block, who arrived in a private car. Publisher Joseph Pulitzer went in an airplane and was greeted by Brother-Publisher Ralph Pulitzer. "Bath House" John Coughlin, owner of Karl Eitel who did not place, wore an apple-blossom shirt, necktie, hat band. Herbert Bayard Swope, just returned from England, got his red hair wet and Commander Paul V. McNutt of the American Legion had the crease rained...
...John Davison Rockefeller Jr. drove to his Manhattan home last week, his car nearly bumped an inebriate couple emerging from a speakeasy close by the Rockefeller residence. To avoid undesirable neighbors, Mr. Rockefeller long ago bought most of the block. Rockefeller lawyers were reported planning action to dry up the Rockefeller neighborhood, including the section bounded by Fifth and Sixth avenues and 48th and 51st streets, honeycombed with speakeasies, which Mr. Rockefeller lately bought as site for the Metropolitan Opera and a smart shopping centre...