Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foretold the collapse of rubber in 1926, the rise of gold shares in 1931. He won his nickname with a much-publicized booklet, The Coming American Boom, which heralded his arrival in the U. S. in 1934. Since then he has conducted his business as an investment counselor in Manhattan, writing a market letter for 300 clients and charging as much as $2,500 a year for market advice. One afternoon last week, just as stock prices began cascading, boardrooms began buzzing with the report that the Major, anticipating "pandemonium," had wired his clients that the selling would start...
Last year in Manhattan a little old man of 77 gave an interview: "The best bank in the world, if you put the right things in it, is the bank of memories...
Died. Constance Lindsay Skinner, 60, novelist, historian, journalist; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Born in the Canadian wilds. Constance Skinner wrote mostly of frontier life, before her death supervised a historical series on The Rivers of America (TIME...
Katherine Anne Porter is a newcomer to this group. Born in Indian Creek, Texas 44 years ago, the great-great-granddaughter of Daniel Boone, she was educated in Louisiana convents, worked for New Orleans and Manhattan newspapers, has lived in Paris, Majorca, Berlin, Vienna, Mexico City, where Calles' official cameraman used her shapely legs as models for a cinema short on shoes. In 1931 she went to Berlin on a Guggenheim Fellowship, met Göring, Goebbels, Hitler, whom she considers "detestable and dangerous," moved to Paris, where she lived for five years. Last year she divorced her first...
...years ago in a crowded little top floor room on Manhattan's 14th Street, Painter John Sloan and Walter Pach joined in bestowing on hulking, frog-faced Diego Rivera the title of "People's Artist of America." The ceremony and the investiture were of little avail. Rivera never again laid brush to wet plaster...