Word: central
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...honorary President of the American Red Cross, President Coolidge appointed members to its Central Committee-to continue as chairman, John Barton Payne; to represent the State Department, Undersecretary Mills; War, Surgeon-General Ireland; Navy, Captain Charles Edward Riggs; Justice, Solicitor-General Mitchell...
What takes them, or took them, to the little restaurant to see each other was a consuming desire to play with their money directly, on the turn of a card, the fall of dice. Between Central Park and 42nd Street, all around the little restaurant, is a forest of "broadminded" hotels where a man can keep a girl or a case of liquor or organize a fairly professional gambling game. Word would go to the little restaurant : "Room such-and-such, Hotel so-and-so." The dapper gentlemen played only among themselves, or with sports like themselves who would blow...
...sharp in debt as it could be smooth in velvet. The creditors grew restive. They persuaded George McManus, whom Rothstein trusted, to call him over for a "creditors' meeting" one evening last month. Rothstein got the call in the little restaurant and started over to the Park Central Hotel where McManus was registered as "George Richards," in Room...
Murder. Some of the Park Central's guests thought they heard a shot. A taxi-driver thought he heard another cab backfire. Anyway, Rothstein was found inside a locked service entrance on the ground floor of the Park Central, staggering, with a bullet in his groin. He declined to say where or by whom he had been shot. He soon died. Outside the hotel, a discharged gun was found, dented by a fall of perhaps three stories...
Harvard Club of Cincinnati: Joseph C. Dinsmore, Secretary, 1218 Union Central Bldg., Cincinnati, Ohio...