Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opening night the Assembly emphasized its éclat with a platoon of Manhattan debutantes who served as ushers. The program listed a committee of Founders including: Mrs. William De Rham, Mrs. Adrian Iselin II, Mrs. Junius Morgan, Mrs. Kenneth M. Murchison, Mrs. William Church Osborn, Mrs. Herbert L. Satterlee. Executive director is Walter Greenough, longtime socio-dramatic entrepreneur...
...board" in lots of from 50,000 to 100,000 shares. To conservative Boston bankers the new bear is not familiar. To traders and speculators he is known as William H. ("Bill") Danforth, believed to be the biggest speculator in Boston and recently to have descended in person upon Manhattan. Aged 43, he is tall, lean, Indian-like. Legend says that during some 20 years of speculating he has four times pyramided a $1,000 stake to $500,000, and lost it. Since July, Bear Danforth has clawed feverishly, often turning from bear tactics to buy a stock...
...Calcutta jute men might well have discussed something else besides how much jute was arriving from the north, what price it was fetching on the Calcutta bazaar, how great were the exports of finished burlap from local mills. For Indian jute dealers were aware that last week in Manhattan had opened the New York Jute and Burlap Exchange, knew that 11/16 of the burlap exported from Calcutta goes to North America. Made from the fibrous stalk of a hemlock-like plant, jute has been for 100 years the prime material for gunny sacks, cordage and heavy wrappers. Trading...
...Other names respected by Manhattan jute men are Christopher Smiles & Co., importers of jute and burlap. Hanson & Orth, hemp dealers, Czarnikow Rionda Co., biggest U. S. sugar baggers, Ralli Bros. of London, handling 50% of raw jute imported to the U. S., said at the moment to lead Yule in total business...
...diplomatic relations that exist between Swedish Match and the rest of the world. Although Herr Kreuger has been Great Matchman for the past dozen years, it was only last year that alert U. S. investors first became familiar with him (TIME, Oct. i, 1928). Then it was that Manhattan's Lee, Higginson Co. floated part of a $60,000,000 Kreuger & Toll bond issue. Since then, however, Kreuger-lore has been eagerly collected. There have been stories of his private island in the North Sea, of his apartments in Manhattan, Paris, Berlin, of his never carrying matches...