Word: cornerer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Temple Emanu-El, famed synagog on the northeast corner of Fifth Ave. and 43rd St., Manhattan, erected 57 years ago on land which cost $55,000, was sold last week for $7,500,000 to a Polish Jew named Benjamin Winter, who came to the U. S. in 1905 to paint tenements. As the site for a new temple, the congregation (the Reformed Hebrew Society) has purchased the large marble dwelling at the northeast corner of Fifth Ave., and 65th St. owned by Vincent Astor, and upon its ruins will erect a magnificent temple...
...never the rage; when professionals perform in public, the occasion involves little or no ticket speculation; even devotees speak of "a quiet corner for chess." But when, three weeks ago, 21 experts from Austria, Germany, Cuba, Mexico, the U. S., England, Poland, Russia and Czechoslovakia gathered in the Metropolis Hotel in Moscow for a formal dinner before their tournament, the Soviet Government took official notice, and great daily newspapers of the U. S. published editorials pontifying upon their activities in general and focusing the reader's gaze upon one man in particular...
Three previous times in the history of the Stock Exchange there had been "3,000,000-share days." The first was the record "bull day" for all time on April 30, 1901; the second, the "Northern Pacific corner" day on May 9, 1901; and the third the "peace leak" day in December, 1916. Of these the second held the record at 3,336,695 shares. Nov. 10, 1925, however, surpassed this 24-year record by seeing 3,448,747 shares sold in the Exchange open market. According to some financial scribes, this was the worst break in the market...
What is probably the most striking innovation is the erection of Lehman Hall, the new Counting House in the south-west corner of the Yard, immediately, facing the Square. This building, completed during the summer and early fall, contains the Bursar's office, and accommodations for the Superintendent of Caretakers, and other administrative officers...
...corner of Quincy Street and Broadway, opposite Robinson Hall, the new Fogg Art Museum is in process of erection. When completed next fall, this building will provide more than ample museum space, and will also contain four stories of lecture-rooms, libraries and offices...