Word: flagler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...souvenir booklet issued in 1912 during the festivities that marked the opening of the so-called "Key West Extension," the 128-mile over-water rail route to the southernmost city in the U. S. It was dedicated, as was virtually everything else on that occasion, to Henry Morrison Flagler, most brilliant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil partners. Having lavished his brains and his oil wealth on a Florida railroad and Florida hotels, Founder Flagler proposed to open up Cuba and the Caribbean. With a terminal only 92 miles from Havana by car ferry, the Key West Extension...
...venture turned out better than that of his fellow Standard Oilman, Henry Morrison Flagler, who insisted on building his Class I railroad over 114 miles of deep water to reach shallow water at Key West. Flagler's Florida East Coast is in the hands of the courts, and since the last hurricane (TIME, Sept. 16) it has been seriously suggested that its over-water section beyond the Florida mainland would make a better motor road than a railroad.* But the Rogers' Virginian was so solvent last week that a banking group headed by Brown Harriman & Co. easily marketed...
...Mackay, Newcomb Carlton, Percy S. Straus, Clarence M, Woolley, Frederick H. Ecker, Edward S. Harkness, Joseph P. Day, F. Trubee Davison, George Le Boutillier, Henry Morgenthau Sr., Henry S. Morgan, Alfred P. Sloan Jr., Walter P. Chrysler, James G. Blaine, Charles Hayden, Charles E, Hughes Jr., Harry Harkness Flagler, Thomas I. Parkinson. The company: New York World's Fair, 1939. Its purpose: to celebrate the 150th anniverary of George Washington's inauguration and the establishment of New York City as Nation's first capital...
...Musical Art, now a part of the Juilliard School of Music. Brother Walter kept his programs consistently fresh and enterprising (even to the extent of sponsoring the first serious efforts of the upstart George Gershwin). But he was besieged by financial worries until 1914 when his friend Harry Harkness Flagler took over the Symphony's deficits, bore them single-handed until the merger with the Philharmonic...
Last week the Florida dog-racing season reached its peak. At the Biscayne Kennel Club, where Vincent Lopez' orchestra plays and Helen Morgan sings, a skinny, long-backed hound named Crafty Boy won the Florida Derby, most important greyhound race. At the West Flagler track a brindle puppy named George Elfrink won the season's major juvenile race, the $2,000 Nursery Stakes...