Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Small Miracle (by Norman Krasna; Courtney Burr, producer) attempts, with considerable success, to make a Grand Hotel of the lounge in a Manhattan theatre. In the narrow space between the Men's Room and the Ladies' Room are packed a half-dozen plots and subplots. There is the harassed man whose wife is having a baby, the callow collegian who gets caught lying to his sweetheart, the burly youth who finds it embarrassing to have just married a scrawny dowager, the bewildered old couple from the country. There is, too, the graciously unfaithful wife (Ilka Chase) who discovers...
...John Stewart Baker, 40, chairman of the second oldest private bank in New-York, $502,000,000 Bank of the Manhattan Co. Like his father Stephen before him he was president of the bank at 34, and his great-grandfather helped Aaron Burr outwit Alexander Hamilton by chartering the bank as a water company in 1799. Mr. Baker's Manhattan Co. owned New York Title until December 1932 when it was divorced from the parent holding company. Mr. Baker is not related to George Fisher Baker Jr., also a well-known Wall Street banker...
...service goes back to Alumnus-Professor-President Woodrow Wilson, to Grover Cleveland, longtime trustee and lecturer, and finally to the great years between 1769 and 1812. From exactly 1,000 men whom Princeton graduated in those years the U. S. chose one President (James Madison), two Vice Presidents (Aaron Burr and George Mifflin Dallas), six Continental Congressmen, 31 U. S. Senators, 48 U. S. Representatives, 21 State Governors, four U. S. Cabinet members, seven U. S. and State Supreme Court Justices. That took 43 years. But by 1944 President Dodds and the rest of the country should know whether Princeton...
ALICE JAMES: HER BROTHERS, HER JOURNAL-ed. by Anna Robeson Burr- Duffield &Green ($2.50). Well-edited story of the invalid sister of the (Boston) James boys...
Included in the Junior nominations are: Robert S. Brookings, II, Francis H. Burr, Eliot D. Cantor, Robert B, Cutter, Samuel S. Durry, Jr., Richard W. Emory, Charles K. Howard, Osborne F. Ingram, Randolph A. Kidder, Thomas F. Locke, Donald V. McGranahan, Francis D. Moore, Arthur S. Pier, Jr., Sumner Rodman, Arthur W. Todd, and Charles F. Woodward...