Word: brush
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Originators and executors of the barter idea were two New York private bankers of the younger generation-William Henry Hamilton Jr. and his partner H. Charles Winans. Mr. Hamilton is Samuel Vauclain's widower son-in-law. Mr. Winans' wife is smart Novelist Katharine Brush (Glitter, Young Man of Manhattan). Both men used to be with Guaranty Trust Co. Partner Winans knew Brazil through having held a post there for White, Weld & Co. The idea of a direct barter between the U. S. and Brazilian Governments occurred to Banker Hamilton one evening last winter after a meeting...
...sealed his victory with an American Round (90 arrows at distances of 60, 50, and 40 yd.) of 698. surpassing his own world's record of 673 and including 15 bull's-eyes in a row at 40 yd. Second to Champion Hoogerhyde was Andrew L. Brush, a professional of Cos Cob, Conn, who scored...
...Follies (his 23rd) and sent it out to Pittsburgh last fortnight for a tryout, he knew he had no breathtakingly new ideas or humor. He knew the music was only cheerfully dependable, not intoxicating, and during the trial he bustled Composer Johnny Green ("Body & Soul") out to try and brush up the songs. But he had followed his old formula: really beautiful girls, the best tap and ballet dancing that money can buy, principals who are currently at top popularity, and the most perfect mounting, dressing, laundering, discipline. To all this he had added his priceless ingredient, that dash...
...reads the New York Times there is little if anything to choose between Patterson s Daily News and Macfadden's Evening Graphic. To him both are tabloids and thereby tarred with the same brush of blatant sexationalism. The fact is that the News has definite pretensions to being a newspaper; the Graphic none. Somewhere between the two but perceptibly nearer the News, falls the Hearst-Kobler Daily Mirror...
Matthew Chauncey Brush, head of American International Corp., resigned as chairman and a director of Barnsdall Corp, Eugene William Stetson, vice president of Guaranty Trust Co. also resigned his directorship. Robert Law, largest Barnsdall stockholder, good friend of the late Theodore Newton Barnsdall, was made chairman of the board. Mr. Law's sons are named Robert Barnsdall and Theodore Newton...