Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Robert W. Daniel, president of Liberty National Bank in New York (Manhattan), and Mrs. Charlotte Bemiss Christian, niece of the late John Skelton Williams, onetime (1914-21) Comptroller of the Currency; at Richmond, Va. When the Titanic rammed an iceberg and sank in 1913, he rescued and later married Mrs. Lucien P. Smith, wife of onetime Representative Smith of West Virginia, who drowned in the disaster...
Sentenced. Charles Delos Waggoner, banker, of Telluride, Col.; to 15 years imprisonment in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary; for fraudulently obtaining some $500,000 from Manhattan banks (TIME, Sept. 16); in Manhattan...
...Manhattan. To reporters: "I have been a guest of a nation of all colors and creeds. . . . The official visit is over. . . . I feel that I have returned to a city of adoption." He dined with Morgan Partner Thomas William Lamont...
Soon triumphant Whitney Warren was booming to reporters in his snug Manhattan office: "Most gratifying! Most! All over the world this decision will have an important effect upon the rights of artists, particularly architects. Heretofore clients have felt free to make such changes as they felt desirable in plans furnished them by architects. This decision seems to me to support the architect's claim to the right to impose his own interpretation of an architectural problem...
Coffee, Brazilian coffee, made U. S. businessmen hop and howl like Hottentots last week around Manhattan's big brass Coffee Ring. They hopped on each others toes. They hopped higher on camp stools. When they could neither hop high enough or howl loud enough to make a buyer or seller on the other side of the ring understand, they bent low and plunged for the round brass railing, elbowing each others stomachs, yelling "Seven-Jan-Santos!" or "Four-Dec-Rio!" Arms waved and fingers waggled. It was stark, raving business bedlam-the biggest, blackest, wildest day in years...