Word: bostonianism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...life of the romantic Bostonian, John Jay Chapman, with its independence, unfulfilled promise and notes of morbidity, demonstrates Wilson's thesis: "The Americans who graduated from college in the eighties found themselves up against a world which broke most of them. . . . They could no longer play the role in the professions of a trained and public-spirited caste: the new society did not recognize them." As is usual in Wilson's writing, his most penetrating insights are incorporated into the body of his writing, so unaccented and interwoven with descriptions of scene that casual readers may not recognize...
...been −−−−ing up this business long enough. I'm going to straighten it out." Legend has it that these were the words of a hawk-eyed, six-foot Bessarabian Jewish immigrant named Samuel Zemurray who stormed into a meeting of the Bostonian directors of United Fruit Co. in 1932, thumped down on the long table in front of them enough stock certificates and proxies to give him control of the $187,000,000 company. Sam Zemurray got into the banana business in Mobile, Ala. in the early 1900s as a jobber, later peddled United...
...with the duty of deciding for his Back Bay votes which among the contestants was the least of four evils, Republican Leader Henry Parkman, Jr., who in the last mayoral election came in a poor fourth with 29,000, finally settled on Candidate Tobin. That many another anti-Curley Bostonian had done likewise appeared when young Maurice Tobin rolled up 105,212 votes to old Jim Curley's 80,376, left Candidates Nichols and Foley trailing surprisingly far to the rear...
Aside from speeches, resolutions and fun, major business of most conventions is electing new officers. Last week, I. B. A. chose to succeed President Hall a distinguished, white-haired Bostonian with a gentle voice named Francis Edward Frothingham, vice president of Coffin & Burr, Inc. since 1916. Born in Brooklyn in 1871, President Frothingham investigated utilities for years for Stone & Webster, was head of the public utilities division of War Finance Corp. An ardent yachtsman and traveler, he lives quietly in Cambridge, Mass, with his wife and daughter, enjoys riding, being vice president of the Boy Scouts of Boston. Said...
...election on November 2 is non-partisan in form, and every Bostonian, of whatever political faith, should remember that in voting for Nichols he may not be opening the door of Utopia, but he is at least writing "finis" to a disgraceful chapter in the history of Massachusetts. This fact makes all the more deplorable the recent disaffection of a number of prominent Republicans in Ward 5. Basing their action on a personal quarrel of ten years' standing they have put personal sentiment before the good of the city in a manner which the average voter will do well...