Word: harriman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among others to whom invitations have been sent are Lincol Filene, Chairman of Filene's department store in Boston, W. Averill Harriman, Chairman of the Board of the Union pacific Railroad, Kermit Roosevelt '09, president of the Roosevelt Steamship line, and Walter C. Teagle, Chairman of the Board of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey...
...composer in odd counterpoint to the smooth, Hebrew melodies of the Jazz King. While this curio was being put on sale in Manhattan phonograph shops, one of the least sentimental and most interesting events in the commemoration of George Gershwin since his death was an exhibition, at Marie Harriman Gallery, of his own paintings...
Last week Manhattan critics and socialites could see, at the Marie Harriman Gallery, Suzanne & Friend (always in 1900 costumes) boating sentimentally on the Seine; Suzanne, as a barmaid, serving Friend, as a silk-hatted rounder; Suzanne & Friend as a couple of spangled circus riders; Suzanne crossing the Place de la Concorde in a very becoming grey veil; Suzanne as a ballet dancer; Suzanne in a striped jacket (see cut); Suzanne as two ballet dancers, peeking through the curtain...
...headed teacher of music theory named Franklin Robinson finally realized that, because of this small but important difference between a music-school graduate and a full-fledged professional, U. S. symphony orchestras were packed with Europeans. Patriotic Teacher Robinson hastened to the late Mrs. E. H. Harriman, asked her to back him in the organization of a symphony orchestra that would train and place promising graduate students. Mrs. Harriman promptly took him up, gave him full charge of the musical end, and rounded up for her management boards as imposing a collection of Social Register names as ever decorated...
Newshawks found Joseph Wright Harriman, 70, onetime head of the Harriman National Bank & Trust Co. (TIME. March 27, 1933) who went to jail after his bank collapsed, is now paroled, working for a Long Island Ford and Lincoln dealer. Remuneration: $25 a week and commissions. Said local dealers: "He's a corking good salesman...