Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like millions of other U. S. stay-at-homes, fiddled with radio dials, inclined his ear to a loudspeaker. Not a word did he miss. He was listening to the now familiar voice of Prime Minister MacDonald speaking before stiff-shirted notables and receptive microphones at a dinner in Manhattan. Told that there was a telephone call from an intimate friend, the President said: "Tell him I'm too busy...
...Robert Boyd Bogle of Nashville, president-elect last year, assumed the presidency. Who would be chosen president-elect? Army dentists and those who served in the Dental Corps during the War electioneered for Col. Robert T. Oliver of the Army Dental Corps. Others wanted Dr. Martin Dewey of Manhattan. Incoming President Bogle was so eagerly interested in such association politics that he was typically ungracious to those few reporters who wanted dental information for their readers. He is a big, bald man, ponderous in movement, pontifical in talk. Son of a doctor and one of the few U. S. dentists...
...them at Ann Arbor), studying as an avocation the heredity of their colors, of their susceptibility or non-susceptibility to cancer. That avocation has now become his profession. He will shuttle between the cancer research laboratory at Bar Harbor and the offices of the cancer control society in Manhattan...
Founders of new religions are apt to announce that they have been sent by God, that their teaching is divinely inspired, themselves the definitive prophet. Not so Religionist Charles Francis Potter. Last week he hired a hall (Steinway) in Manhattan, packed it (capacity 244), turned away hundreds. Making no audible claims to prophetic succession, he announced "Humanism" and handed out prospectuses thereof...
Architect Murphy was born in New Haven, has lived chiefly in Manhattan, has built many a western building after the western fashion. At Yenching with skillful adaptation of western structural standards to eastern esthetic principals he has designed a group of 45 buildings (29 of them already finished) which do no violence to the memory of the Manchu prince of whose summer-palace their grounds were once a part. The present Chinese government has retained Mr. Murphy for an extremely ambitious building program in Nanking, new Chinese capitol (TIME...