Word: mansions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First job was to determine which State was "Ned" Green's legal domicile-New York, where he maintained a $27,000-a-year apartment at the Sherry-Netherland Hotel; Florida, where his Star Island mansion at Miami Beach cost a small fortune; Massachusetts, where in 1921 he built a house requiring 30 servants; or Texas, where he spent most of his time between 1893 and 1910 but kept only a $5-a-month room at Terrell in later years...
...view of that, the most interesting statement of last week in Pennsylvania was one issued in Pittsburgh by a sharp-faced, dark-skinned personage who occupies a mansion hard by the swank Oakmont Country Club and is known throughout the Negro world as: 1) publisher of the weekly Pittsburgh Courier (circulation: 145,000), 2) national chairman of the Negro division of the Democratic Party for the election of 1932, 3) former occupant of one of the highest Federal offices ever held by a Negro (Special Assistant to the U. S. Attorney General, 1933-35). His name: Robert Lee Vann...
...January day in 1919, the 83-year-old publisher of the Portland Oregonian, ten days ill with grippe, had himself carried to the east bay of his grey stone mansion on Portland's Imperial Heights, to look once more across the city where he had made his fortune. As the late winter sunshine streamed through the window, Henry Lewis Pittock knew that his time was short, knew that his keenest regret was to leave to other hands the great daily he had founded 58 years before. Next night he died, and Portlanders learned that his $7,894,778.33 estate...
...single street, strikes with the strength of overwhelming numbers, the terrible cumulative force of thousands of faces, houses and streets." Photographer Evans himself likes some of his pictures because of their designed humor, others for a quality of care and sensitiveness poorly known as "poetry." Evans' ruined Southern mansion, for example, is no ordinary Southern mansion but one of exceptional, weathered, Doric dignity. A huge dead tree is fallen, uprooted, in front of it. Full silvery sunlight etches the tree, its roots and the moss plumes hanging from an upright branch. In the sky there is only one cloud...
...recommendations few job seekers could offer-from U. S. Admiral Harry Yarnell of the Asiatic Fleet, the Governor-General of Australia, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, the First Lord of the British Admiralty, the Lord Provost of Glasgow, even from the Lord Mayor of London himself, on Mansion House stationery. But most highly prized was one on the chaste paper of Lambeth Palace, a character from the Archbishop of York himself, a dignitary, says Long, who draws quite a lot of water in England...