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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...concerns make only planes, buy their motors elsewhere. Curtiss manufactures motors as well as ships. Curtiss builds Hawks, Falcons, Condors and Fledglings, all military planes which can be modified for transports and gadabouts. In motors it builds the powerful Challenger and Chieftain, both air-cooled, and the Conqueror and D-12-d, both water-cooled...
...offer was given to the Associated Press. Previously the inside news track on everything connected with the second Dawes Committee has been held by the New York Herald Tribune. This paper received as an exclusive "scoop" the paramount story that J. P. Morgan and Owen D. Young would represent the U.S. in Paris (TIME, Jan. 28). By way of humble return for so great a bounty, the Herald Tribune was the only paper to print, on its first page and in full, the following Monday morning, a prolix and tedious address by Mr. Young at a Manhattan church on Sunday...
...exclusion of any Bellhop caught working," and the purpose of the organization seemed to be frequent luncheons at the Hotel George V de luxe seat of the second Dawes Committee. Charter Bellhops include: 1) Stuart Crocker, a General Electric associate of Chairman of the Second Dawes Committee Owen D. Young; 2) Frederick Bate, Secretary of the Committee; 3) M. de Sanchez of the Morgan Company; 4) Leon Fraser, Paris representative of Agent General of Reparations Seymour Parker Gilbert. In thus projecting on a higher plane the luncheon club habits of Babbitts, these junior tycoons confirmed the fixed belief of Frenchmen...
Tycoons. While the Bellhops hopped, the major figures of the U.S. delegation pursued more august courses. J. Pierpont Morgan spent part of the week with Parisian vendors of nearly priceless medieval illuminated manuscripts. Tycoons Owen D. Young and his alternate, Thomas Nelson Perkins, sped out to Cherbourg to meet the Olympic and their wives. Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Lament kept up their round of smart dinners, many with artists and litterateurs of the left bank...
...John D. Rockefeller Jr. last week wiped the village of Eastview off the map of New York, by outright purchase of that once flourishing Colonial hamlet on the outskirts of Tarrytown. Mr. Rockefeller paid more than $700,000 for the privilege of ousting 46 families, so that the new main line of the Putnam division of the New York Central R.R. may run along what was once Eastview's main street, instead of through the Rockefeller estate, "Pocantico Hills." At the same time he rid his vicinity of a mushroom congerie of dance halls, picnic groves, gas stations...