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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These women, a young one and an old one, keep alive by displaying to visitors who look as if they would pay for the privilege a letter from George Gordon, Lord B. The play shows a crude Matron from Milwaukee and her setted husband enjoying, but not paying for, the privilege. The play ends on a flat and irrelevant imputation that the younger lady is none other than Lord Byron's granddaughter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Idler | 4/8/1948 | See Source »

Recent gifts from individuals included $6,000 from Mrs. Emmons Blaine and $1,000 from Gordon McCormick, both of Chicago. These latest grants give the Seminar a 832 receive fund...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Old Dominion Foundation Grants $5,000 to Salzburg | 4/7/1948 | See Source »

Public Record. As a prosecutor, he piled up an imposing list of convictions: Irving ("Waxey Gordon") Wexler (income tax evasion); "Lucky" Luciano (prostitution); Jimmy ("The Honest Blacksmith") Hines (Tammany graft); ex-Stock Exchange President Richard Whitney (grand larceny). Along with the bigwigs, he put away scores of smaller fry in the policy, loan shark' and extortion rackets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: WHO'S WHO IN THE G.O.P.: DEWEY | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

SKIING (minor H)--Gordon Abbott, Jr. '50; Edmund A. Begert, Jr. '49; Gerald Y. Genn '48; Lawrence L. Griffin '48; Rodger P. Nordblom '50; Graham R. Taylor, Jr. '50 (captain); William S. Wasserman, Jr. '48; Robert L. Barrel '46 ocC (manager...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winter Varsity Athletes Get Major, Minor H Recognition | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...Died. Gordon S. Rentschler, 62, chairman of the board of directors of the National City Bank of New York; of a heart ailment; in Havana. He was once described by the late Fiorello LaGuardia as "the one banker I know who has none of the traits of the pawnbroker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 15, 1948 | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

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