Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eleanor Roosevelt found that "a clarifying and fair statement." In an accompanying statement of her own, which the Cardinal's office in Manhattan also released, she said she found it reassuring to be told that the Cardinal was asking only for "auxiliary services," a position he had not made clear in his earlier, broadside attacks on the Barden Bill. "I again wish to reiterate," she concluded, "that I have no anti-Roman Catholic bias. I am firm in my belief that there shall be no pressure brought to bear by any church against the proper operations of the government...
...Window. Killers stalk a twelve-year-old witness (Bobby Driscoll) through a jungle of Manhattan tenements (TIME...
...Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria three months ago, grizzled old Chaim Weizmann had lunch with young Henry Ford II. Israel's President spoke of his country's desperate need for motor transportation. With only 30 miles of the rickety Haifa-to-Cairo coastal railroad operating, Israel had to rely almost entirely on highway transport, and therefore needed the U.S. auto industry's help. Weizmann's plea presented Ford a double opportunity: to wipe out the last unpleasant memories of Grandfather Henry Ford's involvement in anti-Semitism,* and at the same time to swing...
Into a small, smart shop on London's Bond Street strolled two women. One was a $24-a-week typist, the other a peeress. In turn, each one plunked down 49 shillings ($9.80), and walked out smiling with a new pair of Joyce playshoes. In similar shops in Manhattan and Melbourne, Los Angeles and Lima, Sydney and Santiago, other women were doing the same thing last week. In a single day, in eight countries around the world, some 16,000 pairs of Joyce shoes are sold...
Died. David Albert Schulte, 76, president (1903-48) and principal owner of the nationwide Schulte cigar-store chain, chairman of the board (1923-45) of Park & Tilford, Inc. (liquor and cosmetics), president of Dunhill International, Inc. (tobacco and perfume); in Holmdel, N.J. One of Manhattan's biggest real-estate operators (he had an intuitive genius for choosing the right corner-site retail stores), Schulte began as a $5-a-week errand boy, ended owning nearly 200 stores in 125 cities...