Word: islandness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Baltimore Gets Cautious"; "Florida Doesn't Worry"; "Millennium in Boston"; "Warfare in Los Angeles"; "Albany Much Drier"; "Denver Bootleggers Scared"; "Profiteering in Cincinnati"; "Washington Dealers Careful"; [Texas] "Not Jones But Hoover"; "Deaths in St. Louis"; "Corn in Kansas City"; "Moonshine in Louisville"; "Pittsburgh Dealers Quit"; "Cleveland Undismayed"; "Rhode Island Calms Down"; "Indianapolis Unafraid"; "Atlanta Little Affected...
...said nothing, and last week let the American Sketch, a failure, be merged quietly with the New York Tatler Social Digest, a smartchart owned by Carlton Publishing Co. The new monthly will be called The Tatler and American Sketch, devoted chiefly to society, sport, Long Island realty...
Mausoleums. The traditional "bad man," asked the conventional question of where he buries his dead, may soon reply, "At Tompkinsville, Staten Island, in the 6,000 mausoleums of Mausoleum Corp. of America." On the site is room for 4,000 additional crypts. Mausoleum Corp. stock is being marketed at $106 a unit (4 Class A, 1 Class B share), is held chiefly by organizers...
...City to Manhattan. When other roads refused to cooperate, he went under instead of over the water and built the Hudson River tubes. Later he made an arrangement with the New York, New Haven & Hartford and built the Hell Gate Bridge, and still later got control of the Long Island Railroad and connected it to the Penn with tunnels under the East River...
...George Willets Davison was born at Rockville Center, Long Island, in 1872, graduated from Wesleyan (Phi' Beta Kappa) in 1892, received New York University LL. B. in 1894. In 1899 he was Queens County District Attorney; in 1900 served as secretary of a committee formed to revise the charter of Greater New York. He became Central Union's vice president at the time of the 1918 merger and in 1919 succeeded to the presidency upon the death of James N. Wallace...