Word: getz
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Largest private U. S. zoo, which may also get some of the expedition's catch, is that of George Getz in Holland, Mich. This collection, started in 1916, was opened four years ago to the public. Last year over a million people went to see the Getz animals. William Randolph Hearst has a large private zoo on his ranch in California. Charles Livingston Bull, famed animal artist, used to keep a collection of live wild beasts at his home in Oradell, N. J., for models...
...Manhattan the passing of control in U. S. Distributing to western interests was a notable event. Although chairman of U. S. Distributing Corp. is George Fulmer Getz, Chicago tycoon and elephant owner, it has been always closely associated with New York business. Organizer of U. S. Trucking was the late Banker James J. Riordan. Chairman of the company in 1920-23 was Banker Riordan's great & good friend Alfred Emanuel Smith...
...MILTON E. GETZ...
When he got back in office last year, Mayor Thompson called loudly upon men like President James Simpson of Marshall Field & Co., Utility Man Samuel Insull, John Hertz of Yellow Cabs, William (Gum) Wrigley Jr. and Promoter George F. Getz, to serve on a grandiose committee which later proved to be only one more vehicle for Thompsonian publicity. With the Mayor increasingly bogged and discredited, the Mayor's committee has awakened to its opportunity, to Chicago's necessity. Last week the Chicago potentates were considering taking .the city's affairs-debts, taxes, crime, public works...
...primary election this spring. Thompson has been convicted of grafting and .ordered to pay back $2,500,000 to the city. Thompson's city-comptroller has had to resign, owing to huge deficits in the city's finances. Thompson's rich friend, George F. Getz, has transferred his funds and interest to the political projects of a man who used to handle the Getz trucking interests in Manhattan, Alfred E. Smith. Thompson has lately been complaining, like Hughes, of ill health. Last week, like Hughes a few days prior, Thompson denied that he himself was going...