Word: harold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republican, he is friendly with both Mayor LaGuardia's Fusion administration in New York City and the Democratic State administration, both of which he serves (as president of the Long Island State Park Commission and City Park Commissioner). No friend, however, of Franklin Roosevelt and Harold Ickes with whose money he built the Triborough Bridge, Mr. Moses is a favorite with Greater New Yorkers. In the last 17 years he has, almost singlehanded, obtained for them more and better parks and parkways than they had obtained in 50 years previous...
...first Bliss prize of $100 was won last year by Harold V. B. Cloveland '38 for the best appear among the twenty-five submitted in the contest under Plan I. This year, contestants under Plan I will be examined in the autumn and those under Plan II in the spring...
Members of the committee were assigned definite work for the preparation of the book. Robert E. L. Strider '39 will have charge of the photography, Richard H. Sullivan '39 will act as Business Manager, James Tobin '39 will edit all general articles, and Harold M. Curtis, Jr. '39 will see to the preparation of all writeups regarding athletics, publications, and organizations...
...swart, buck-toothed Spaniard. Manuel Quezon, President of the Philippine Commonwealth, had picked last spring this new man to be Philippine Resident Commissioner at Washington, succeeding banjo-eyed Politician Quintin Paredes. The new man's name, Joaquin Miguel ("Mike") Elizalde, is virtually the Philippine equivalent of Harold S. ("Mike") Vanderbilt...
...Dollar Lines, continued Admiral Land, had not been suffering from a lack of business. From 1930 through 1937 it had gross revenues of more than $13.000,000 a year. But in the years from 1923 through June 1934, R. Stanley Dollar withdrew $2,526,501.22 as salary, J. Harold Dollar $1,081,693.62, H. L.Lorber $737,926.21 and Banker Herbert Fleishhacker $377,756.85. When R. Stanley Dollar bought five ships from the Government he took $281,225 as 5% commission...