Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Philip Kip Rhinelander, 42, once wealthy first son of a famed New York family* of heart disease; in a $1s-a-week rooming house; in Manhattan...
Died. Ernst Toller, 45, German expressionist poet and playwright (Man and the Masses) ; by his own hand (hanging); a few days after attending a world convocation of writers (see p. 79); in Manhattan. Leader of social revolutionary movements in post-War Germany, Toller wrote many of his works in prison, was exiled by the Nazis, fought Fascism in Spain, worked in the U. S. to aid Spanish refugees...
...Glenn Martin does not tinker with airplanes any more. He tells other people what he wants. When he returns to his office he is as unruffled and immaculate as before. A fussy dresser, he goes in for double-breasted suits in sturdy fabrics, insists that his tailors (Bell & Co., Manhattan) put cuffs on his coat sleeves, adorn his lapels and cuffs with little raised ridges that give the suits a ribbed appearance vaguely like the belly...
Frequently he goes to Manhattan, tearing up the highway at breakneck speed with his mother sitting unruffled beside him. But never does he go by airplane. Few years ago only stockholders in the company were Martin and Motorman Louis Chevrolet. But in 1934, with funds needed for expansion, 325,000 shares of Glenn L. Martin Co. were put on the market at $11.50 a share (current price: $34.625). Today, Martin remains well in control with some 37% of the stock in his hands, but the bankers who are now interested in his company have taken...
When Martin goes to Manhattan with his mother, he stays over to see a show or two, any kind just so he's sure it's likely to be good. Occasionally he goes duck shooting on the Chesapeake. Still more rarely he goes on short cruises in his 107-foot, twin-Diesel yacht Glenmar, from which he keeps in communication with the plant by radiotelephone. He likes to talk about plans for a long trip at sea, but probably he will never make it, because he invariably finds ways to keep himself busy...