Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pere Marquette and Hocking Valley and offering a plan (contested in the event) for unifying them. Leonor Fresnel Loree entered it by control of the Delaware & Hudson and the Wabash, by buying near control of the Lehigh Valley and by getting an option (lapsed in the event) on the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh...
Ever since 1920 Norman Anthony had been with Judge. He was not educated primarily to be a humorist. On the contrary he went to art school in his native Buffalo and later in New York, and learned to paint compositions of fish and bananas in new and thoughtful poses. His sense of humor could not be stifled, and in 1910, when he was 21 and very free, he eloped with a Buffalo girl. This prank turned out well. Mr. & Mrs. Anthony had two children and Mr. Anthony became a comedian in earnest. After ten years of free-lancing with cartoons...
...foreigner at the office of Judge was its new editor. Jack Shuttleworth joined the staff in 1924. Like Norman Anthony he was born in Buffalo and inhaled the mirth-inspiring atmosphere of that city during his childhood. He tried two other ways to make a living: studied engineering at the University of Cincinnati, worked in a lumber camp in Canada. But Norman Anthony was an old friend, and pointed the way to his salvation with an invitation to come to Judge...
Incorporated last May, this company is backed by businessmen of Buffalo and Western New York. Among them: John W. Henry (hardware); William E. Shaddock (plumbing); Paul E. and William H. Fitzpatrick (contractors); Dan Roblin (housewrecking); Thomas J. Link (tobacco); Joseph E. Zent (furniture). From such divers trades was assembled a wireless company, capitalized at $25,000,000, now ready to fulfill the stern conditions laid down by the Commission. The company must establish communications between no cities. Fifteen transmitting stations (in 15 cities) must be ready by Dec. 31, 1929, and two each month thereafter until...
Most of the entourage having slept through the Niagara Falls sojourn, the Instrumentalists arrived in Buffalo in time for the luncheon at the Saturn Club on Delaware Avenue. This was followed by swimming in the Club's excellent pool before the tea dance at the Club from 4 to 6 o'clock. A special holiday dinner was served to the men before they left for the Twentieth Century Club where the concert was followed by a dance. The Tennis Club and Country Club dances each attracted a Harvard following, while the greatest number of men went to a special entertainment...