Word: furse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Porter names eight lines of business in which Astor engaged; the two most usually connected with his name are Manhattan real estate and the American Fur Company. Astor was one of the first to bank on Manhattan's rapid growth. In 20 years he invested well over $700,000 in...
Red Embargo. If the Duff speech was somewhat stuffy all Canada was excited and agog last week over an Order-in-Council announced by the Hon. Edmond B. Ryckman, Minister of National Revenue. The O-in-C, a most drastic embargo, shut out of Canada virtually all Russian produce, including...
Died. Ella Virginia von Echtzel Wendel, 80, last and youngest of Manhattan's rich, eccentric, land-owning Wendels; of apoplexy in the night; in the famed old Wendel house at 39th Street and Fifth Avenue. Ever since the. first John Gott- lieb Wendel, contemporary of John Jacob Astor, made a...
So ran a headline in the Milwaukee Journal year ago. When Rev. B. F. Schoenfeld, pastor of the Congregational Church at Park Falls, Wis. read that headline, he boiled with rage. It referred to his church. And he was sure that anyone reading the headline would believe that he was...
The auctioneer was German. The bids were in U. S. dollars. The place was Leningrad last week, and $3,000,000 worth of furs were sold by the Soviet Government to foreign bidders.