Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...needed eyeglasses, although they seldom were pictured wearing them. Dr. Wilmer has taken care of them all. Last week President Hoover telegraphed him congratulations on the dedication of the Institute. Secretary Mellon and his brother telegraphed him the promise of $30,000 for a research fellowship. Adolph Lewisohn, Manhattan banker, telegraphed another $30,000. Near Dr. and Mrs. Wilmer at the dedi cation ceremonies sat Mrs. Aida de Acosta Root Breckinridge, wife of Wilson's first Assistant Secretary of War. She raised the $4,000,000 which financed the Institute, because Dr. Wilmer saved her eyesight six years...
Appointment disclosed. Calvin Coolidge of Northampton, Mass.; Julius Rosenwald of Chicago; and Alfred Emanuel Smith of Manhattan...
Birthday. John Dewey, most famed U. S. pedagog-philosopher; in Manhattan. Age: 70. For three days he listened to fellow pedagog-philosophers gathered by a national committee around Columbia University, speak on "John Dewey's influence in the Schools," "John Dewey's Influence on Education in Foreign Lands," "The Philosophy of John Dewey," "John Dewey in Social Welfare...
Died. Mrs. Rita de Acosta Lydig, 53, once beauteous Manhattan & Paris socialite, divorced wife of the late Wendell E. D. Stokes, widow of Col. Philip M. Lydig (Spanish war hero); of pernicious anaemia; in Manhattan. In 1921 she attracted widespread comment by announcing her engagement to Dr. Percy Stickney Grant, famed "Radical" cleric. Dr. Grant was forbidden to marry her by Bishop William Thomas Manning, because she was a divorcee. In 1924 she broke the engagement, "not wishing to ruin Dr. Grant's career." When he died within the year, he left her an estate of some...
...Minneapolis Symphony, under Conductor Henri Verbrugghen, favored first this year the twin-citizens of St. Paul, played its second concert at home. Again the orchestra will take a midwinter tour as far as Havana, and a spring tour, adding to its present total of 2,191 concerts. In Manhattan, a new orchestra called the Manhattan Symphony gave the first of a series of 30 popular-priced concerts. Dr. Henry Hadley, rarely inspiring as conductor or composer, waved the baton. Ruggiero Ricci, nine-year-old violinist from San Francisco, astounded listeners with a marvelous playing of the Mendelssohn concerto. Like young...