Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appointing an ambassador, it is customary for the State Department to select a candidate who is persona grata to the government of the country concerned. When, last week, the U. S. Senate confirmed the appointment of Manhattan's Harry Frank Guggenheim as Ambassador to Cuba, the question of acceptability was quite ideally met. Mr. Guggenheim is well acquainted with Cuban problems. Cuban people. But there were more than personal reasons for his appointment having been welcome to "El Gallo" (The Rooster). President Gerardo Machado y Morales of Cuba. For the very fact that Mr. Guggenheim and not a more...
Inventor Whittum entered Worcester Polytechnic Institute this fall. Last week he received a curious scholarship of $600 given annually by Henry Jones Fuller, Manhattan banker and Worcester trustee, to that member of the entering class who has shown greatest "Yankee Ingenuity." Should Inventor Whittum win another scholarship in his succeeding years at Worcester, from Trustee Fuller he will receive another...
Last week with far more confidence and 15 trunks full of costumes the now great Argentina landed for the third time in the U. S. For her first Manhattan program she gave five new dances and the audience cheered her louder than at the so-called debut a year ago (TIME, Nov. 19). Immediately thereafter she entrained for Buffalo, thence to Rochester. This year she will give some 60 recitals, go as far West as the Coast...
Last week Editor & Publisher turned specifically upon Edward L. Bernays, able Manhattan publicist (see above). Mr. Bernays, the magazine noted, had mailed "one of his familiar handouts" to New York newspapers, announcing that he was ready to make arrangements for newsgatherers when they journeyed to Dearborn, Mich., for the Edison-Ford celebration of light's golden jubilee. What gave rise to Editor & Publisher's wrath was the fact that Mr. Bernays' letter mentioned Herbert Clark Hoover. Commented Editor & Publisher:-''If Mr. Bernays were commissioned to make press arrangements for an address by the chief executive...
...Last week the New Yorker, Manhattan weekly smartchart, told how a gentleman aboard the Mauretania en route for Manhattan last June, spent the better part of four afternoons on a sequestered deck-bench reading Authoress Delmar's Loose Ladies. The reader was John Pierpont Morgan...