Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eighteen thousand moneyed "metropolitanites" in Manhattan have: 1) $10,000 to $25,000 a year in income; and 2) "the common denominator of swift spending that barely catches up to their expanding wants." A family with $18,000 a year may spend $2,000 to $3,000 for rent; $1,800 to $2,100 for food; $900 for a nurse; $300 to $350 for liquor; $900 for a maid; $100 for flowers; $1,500 to $2,000 for clothes; $1,800 for life insurance, savings; $1,000 to $1,200 on the man's "cash expense at business...
...Daisy goes as follows: face partner, tap hands; clap hands to knees; "with great delicacy and discretion," boomp hip against bustle; place hand on heart, bow; waltz for four bars; repeat the whole thing. Boomps-a-Daisy was launched in the U. S. on a television program in Manhattan last fortnight, is to be tried out at Manhattan hotels in mid-July...
...evening last week, genial, popeyed Jerome Frank made his maiden appearance as chairman of SEC, at the maiden dinner of Manhattan's Association of Customers' Brokers, at which bigwig brokers like Carle Conway and Paul Shields were much more in evidence than customers' men. Chairman Frank seized the occasion to issue, not an SEC blast against Wall Street, but a solemn warning and appeal for cooperation...
...brokers' general practice of taking customers' cash deposits and mingling them with their own funds, with the result that if a broker fails, his customers are just some of many unsecured creditors. By contrast, he pointed out that the U. S.'s No. 1 department store (Manhattan's R. H. Macy) "accepts customers' cash for deposit against future purchases. But . . . these deposit accounts are not commingled with the general funds of the store. They are deposited with a totally separate banking company set up under State banking laws and supervised and examined periodically by State...
CANCELLED IN RED-Hugh Penfecost -Dodd, Mead ($2). The shooting of a racketeering stamp broker solved by another dealer, dapper Larry Storm, and by soft-voiced Inspector Bradley of the Manhattan force. Ably-plotted, humorous, backed with authoritative philatelic glue...