Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Brookhart proceeded to describe a dinner at the Willard Hotel given by one Walter J. Fahey, Manhattan broker...
After receiving as a gift from one Mrs. May Lyons a Mosaic of himself, made in the Vatican Museum, Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes of Manhattan last week wrote letters to the pastors of his archdiocese, instructing them to dedicate October "to the supreme shepherd, Pius XI, in honor of the 50th anniversary of his holy priesthood," and to collect Peter-pence October...
Alfred Emanuel Smith was asked when he would move from the Hotel Biltmore into his new Manhattan home (No. 51 Fifth Ave.). Said he, paying the ultimate tribute to Catherine Dunn ("Katie") Smith, "I will move when the last rug is laid, the last picture is on the wall and dinner is on the table...
...Bertrand Arthur William Russell, described by the New York Telegram as "catsup-faced, white-haired," arrived last week in Manhattan for a U. S. lecture tour.* His points...
...Goods. In 1872 Lyman Bloomingdale, an assembler of hoop skirts, was left jobless by fashion changes. He opened a dry goods store, recorded net sales of $3.63 the first day. In 1928 Bloomingdale Bros. (Manhattan) reached the net sales total of $23,000,000. Last week it finally joined a long-planned department store merger which will consolidate it with Abraham & Straus (Brooklyn-Started in 1865 by Abraham Abraham, who was joined in 1893 by Isidor Straus, chinaware merchant), William Filene's Sons Co. (Boston-Headed by William E. Filene who unsuccessfully sought injunctions to prohibit large stockholders, including...