Word: john
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Last week's alteration concerned the New York, New Haven & Hartford, which has been operating without a president since the resignation (Nov. 27, 1928) and death (Dec. 7, 1928) of the late Edward J. Pearson.* To the New Haven presidency went John Jeremiah Pelley, from the presidency of the Central of Georgia Railway...
Bowman-Biltmore. Smaller than the United but considerably more metropolitan is the Bowman-Biltmore chain. Manhattan units are the Commodore, Belmont and Biltmore. Extra-Manhattan units include the Westchester Biltmore, the Sevilla of Havana, the Miami Biltmore in Florida. Head of Bowman-Biltmore is John McEntee Bowman, lover of horses, master of showmanship...
...product of Toronto, got his first job in a Yonkers haberdashery. After hotel-clerking for some time in the South and the Adirondacks he went to work in Durland's Riding Academy, Manhattan. When Durland's passed a rule that the riding masters had to wear uniforms, John Bowman rebelled, resigned, set up his own small academy. He had few horses and little cash but the venture was prosperous enough when he left it to take charge of wines and cigars in Gustav Bauman's oldtime Holland House. When Bauman put up the Biltmore in 1912, Bowman...
...delegation of foreign hotel men visited the Commodore. Why not, thought Mr. Bowman, show them a typical U. S. spectacle? So he put up a tent in the Grand Ballroom of the Commodore, covered the floor with sawdust, secured sideshow freaks and wild animals from his circus friend John Ringling. When the delegation arrived, it walked into a genuine circus, complete even to an elephant which the Commodore's freight elevator had safely transported...
...When John Drew died in July 1927, the deanship of the U. S. stage passed from the Drawing Room to the Library. It might have gone into the Bed Room, but aging David Belasco had long since carried his pawkiness beyond the point where he could command respectful attention. Besides, vague though the title is, the Dean of the Stage should be an actor, if possible...