Word: brooklyn
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...institutional nature on the basis of the work for the Canadian Pacific Railway. An award of $2000 was made to Barton, Durstine, and Osborn, Inc., New York City, for its handling of the campaign of R. H. Macy and Co. Inc., of New York, and to Davis Greek Inc., Brooklyn, N. Y. was awarded a prize of $2000 for the campaign of D. & G. Sutures, in the industrial campaign field. Under the heading of "Scientific Research in Advertising" a research study entitled. "Retail Shopping Areas" from the J. Walter Thompson Co., New York City, won a prize...
Nathan Straus, philanthropist, Zionist, last half of Abraham & Straus (famed Brooklyn department store), became 80 years old, in Mamaroneck, N. Y. He gave another $100,000 for reconstruction work in Palestine (making a total of $1,500,000). His wife lit a candle on a monster birthday cake and kissed him. Letters of congratulation showered upon him from the clergy, from financiers, from almost all State governors, from the Cabinet, from President Coolidge, who remarked how well beloved is Nathan Straus and said: "Such a reward is beyond price." Mr. Straus repeated his motto: "Give while you live...
...Rufus T. Bush, mother of Irving T. Bush, owner of the famed Bush Terminal, Brooklyn, last week sent his yacht a present. The boat, building in Germany, will have no filthy foreign wine over her bows at christening. A California vintage, 40 years old, was despatched to Dresden to help entitle her Coronet...
...Harry Pinneo Dewey, Plymouth Church, Minneapolis, has $12,000 per year. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, Central Church, Brooklyn, gets $12,000 a year, and perhaps as much again for daily column writing...
...reminiscence. Tul-chva, Hungarian village, was his start; the cinema-gorged gulches at Los Angeles his end. On the way was childhood immigration to the U. S.; adult work in Manhattan cutting cloth to cloak & suit patterns for $17 a week; saving of $1,600 and purchase of a Brooklyn ''hole in the wall" for exhibition of what passed for moving pictures in 1904; investment, speculation, expansion as an exhibitor, producer, distributor of films. Last March he bought the Roxy Theatre in Manhattan for "more than $15,000,000" two weeks after it opened. Seating 6,200 people...