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...ante), Lawyer Longley found himself pitted against such famed Manhattan legalites as Samuel Untermyer and Louis Marshall in the most celebrated libel suits since Boss William Barnes charged the late great Theodore Roosevelt with tippling. Together with Missouri's Senator Reed and Lawyer De Lancey Nicoll of Manhattan, Lawyer Longley battled the charges of Aaron Sapiro and Herman Bernstein. In the end, Mr. Ford retracted and the cases were settled out of court...
...Splendid courage and rugged honesty in his stand on the prohibition question." -Edward S. Harkness, Manhattan financier, longtime Republican. Similarly, de Lancey Kountz, Manhattan banker, board chairman of Devoe & Raynolds Co. (paints...
...recent publication of Architect Urban's ideas by Editor Deems Taylor of Musical America brought the announcement that no site had been decided on, no plans approved. A committee of five trustees?R. Fulton Cutting, John Pierpont Morgan, Cornelius N. Bliss Jr., Robert S. Brewster and De Lancey Kountze?was chosen to investigate other possible locations. Fifth Avenue was suggested, also Park, Bryant Park in back of the Library and Central Park South. But the associations governing these sites are opposed. A new opera house, it seems, is undesirable where it might endanger traffic congestion, establish a precedent for building...
...first stocks to go, and go farthest, was Devoe & Raynolds, from $140 to $40. Justly indignant at aspersions cast, Treasurer De Lancey Kountze declared : "If there is any maniplation . . . it is being done without the knowledge or consent, directly or indirectly, of the corporation or any of its officers...
...Vaux de Lancey '24 of Brandon, Vt., and Meyer Rubin '24 of Malden were awarded honorable mention...