Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Robert John Gary, 61, vice president & general counsel of New York Central Lines; of heart disease; in Manhattan. He was a longtime foe of Federal railroad control, successfully defended (1926) his company's right to absorb the C. C. C. & St. L. ("Big Four...
...Julia Barnett Rice, 69, founder of the Anti-Noise Society of America, onetime President of the Society for the Suppression of Unnecessary Noises, originator of "Safe & Sane" Independence Days; at Deal, N. J. Annoyed by toots of Hudson River tugs, she sound-proofed her home on Riverside Drive, Manhattan...
...Manhattan Magistrate Jean Norris: "Of course I can appreciate the state of mind at the time, but that does not justify...
About the most certain thing in China, last week, was the kidnaping at Tientsin of one Aaron Brenner, 40-year-old Manhattan fur buyer, by bandits who asked $500.000 ransom...
...Will you pay it?" queried prying Manhattan reporters of Brother Herman Brenner, head of the fur firm. "If Aaron has really been kidnaped," said Herman, "we'll do everything to get his release. I think it more likely though that he has just gone away on a party...