Word: everly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Orleans' oldest daily newspaper (founded 1837) is the morning Times-Picayune, and no competitor has ever seriously challenged its dominance. The Picayune* sent George Wilkins Kendall, reputedly the first U. S. war correspondent, to Vera Cruz in 1847, published the peace treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo before the President of the U. S. even saw it. Before there was a telegraph, the Picayune used to set up stories in type on steamers bound from Mobile to New Orleans, send them galloping through the streets to press by team and wagon...
Shrewd, rufous Hubert Renfro" Knickerbocker, prize-seal of Hearst's International News Service, disembarked in Manhattan, gloomily prophesied that the present war will last for "six years or so ... after that the real war begins. . . . None of us will ever live to see peace again. . . . There'll be bloodshed, and enough to go around to satisfy everybody...
...Buros "in the name of common decency" to stop the presses. A distraught publisher: "Now, Oscar! Is this sporting? . . . During my four years of service in the United States Marine Corps and later during my service . . . with the A. E. F., it never occurred to me that I would ever be called upon to die for dear old Rutgers...
More than its quality made the Sullivan sale significant. As the first major auction of modern French painting since dealers' prices in this field skyrocketed in the '203, it gave ever-suspicious private buyers a line on whether prices had been puffed up unduly. With collectors making most of the high bids, dealers were vindicated. Chunky, art-loving Walter P. Chrysler Jr. set a new U. S. auction record for Cézanne by bidding $27,500 for a sombre portrait of Mme Cézanne. An anonymous collector paid $19,000 for van Gogh's high...
...Junius Morgan was becoming a rich merchant banker in Boston and London, Pierpont went to school at Vevey, Switzerland ("makes fun of things," noted the schoolmaster); later to the University of Gottingen, where he proved himself a born mathematician, fond of fine clothing and the fair sex. "No one ever enjoyed shopping more than...