Word: duesenbergs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...buying into State Street in 1936. The newcomers were none too popular with such established State Streeters as Marshall Field and Carson Pirie Scott. But Goldblatt bargains were attractive, and sales zoomed. Maurice and Nathan kept their profits in one bank account. They drove to work in the same Duesenberg...
Exhumed. Chicago Brass Manufacturer Marshall Merkes announced that he had bought the remaining inventory and blueprints of the fabulous Duesenberg automobile from the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Co. Merkes hired the late Fred Duesenberg's younger brother August to design him an eight-cylinder engine with an injection-type fuel feed for a new custom-made Duesenberg. The price: "No less than $25,000, probably more...
...incredible news: he had finished second. Puzzled and angry, he demanded: "Why did you keep flagging me down . . .? I pulled over and waved at Rose when he went by. ... I figured I was still laps in front." Lou Moore, whose ambition is to be what Racer-Builders Fred Duesenberg and Harry Miller were to the speedway business in prewar days, said nothing. Both his beauties had come home and that was what mattered most...
...hour and a half late to his own inauguration and late to almost every public ceremony thereafter. He called himself "The Late Mayor." He filled city offices with sluggish Tammany favorites. He kept a wardrobe of 70 $165 suits, drove about the city in a $17,000 Duesenberg. He lolled happily at the fabulous Central Park Casino with his mistress, musical comedy star Betty Compton (whom he afterwards married). Jazz-happy New York loved...
...wanted to stick pins in him to see if he had hemophilia. He had no Hapsburg lip either, but he did have cigar boxes chockablock with $1,000 bills, though no one ever got really close enough to find out if they were real. He scooted around in a Duesenberg and gave fancy dinner parties (guests remembered, later, that a waitress always read the menu...