Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Mary van Renssalaer Cogswell, plump, blonde Manhattan socialite, accompanied by tall, brunette Mrs. Mabel Satterlee Ingalls, niece of John Pierpont Morgan, managed to enter Soviet Russia last month without a visa. Last week she got out of Bolshevikland without even a passport, sold to Hearst papers the romping diary of her exploits, then spilled her story all over again to every correspondent who would listen. Young men-about-Manhattan sighed. They know "Molly" Cogswell. Acutely they sympathized with Bolshevik males who were unable to withstand her high, burbling, husky wheedle...
...first U. S. edition will be published Oct. 15, 1929 by Lewis Copeland (Manhattan...
Aged 23, emigrated to the U. S., attended General Theological Seminary, Manhattan...
Louis Bamberger, 74, founder of L. Bamberger & Co., Newark department store lately bought out by Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. (TIME, July 8), last week announced he would retire and made a "personal gift" of $1,000,000 to be divided among 300 of his oldest, most faithful employes. Said he: "Youth counts in business today. I may appear young, but I know better...
...company hit last week was Airvia Transportation Co., which is just getting its wing-hold commercially. U. S. postal inspectors swooped into its Manhattan offices, ordered officers and employes to bring their account books to a Federal grand jury for study. Other inspectors did the same at Coastal Airways office, because of that line's pending merger with Airvia. Still other inspectors visited Hadley & Co., investment security sellers. Federal warrants were issued for the arrest of one Austin Howard Montgomery (alias Arthur Montgomery, alias Monte Griffo, onetime convict) and Gerald Tiffany (alias Harry Taylor). Trans-Atlantic Flyers Roger Quincy...