Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...While Prime Minister MacDonald was at the White House, waiting in Manhattan for his turn to see President Hoover was a slender little gentleman who looked not unlike a brownskin edition of Secretary Mellon (but with wider lips). This, a very finicky gentleman with his own chef, an imposing retinue of secretaries, an in come of $3,000,000 per year and a family tree 900 years old, was the much-married Maharajah of Kapurthala in the Punjab, accredited representative to the League of Nations of Their Highnesses the Indian ruling princes. Precisely what he wished to discuss with President...
...Bethlehem]." Now Shearer said: "I have met Mr. Schwab on a number of occasions. 'The Star of Bethlehem' himself was the first to suggest that his company might employ me." He said he had conversed with Mr. Schwab in November 1926, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Manhattan...
...Samuel Parkes Cadman, radio preacher, was dragged in: "The people that hire Dr. Cadman to spread his [pacifist] stuff over the country don't tell him what to say." From Manhattan. Dr. Cadman issued a verbose reply...
Masquerading as ink, paint, olive oil and other prosaic commodities, shipments of high-grade liquor used to proceed to one Alfred E. Norris, Manhattan broker, from one Joel D. Kerper, Philadelphia 'legger. When the U. S. penetrated the shipments' disguises, Broker Norris and 'Legger Kerper were tried in Philadelphia. District, Judge William Huntington Kirkpatrick sentenced the 'Legger to 15 months at Atlanta and a $20,000 fine. Broker Norris was fined $200 on the ground that, though the act of purchasing liquor is not prohibited, yet the act of purchasing aids and abets the prohibited transportation...
...World War. As a Georgian newsgatherer in 1914, he helped pass child labor laws. His study The Gangs of New York has been praised by gangsters themselves. He edited The Bon Vivant's Companion, an elegant liquor manual (1928). In aspect he is an extremely busy Manhattan journalist, with a great curiosity about the more flamboyant affairs of state...