Word: martinis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tycoon Eastman's public gifts all have had a peculiarly personal touch. For example, the London dental dispensary was the result of Mr. Eastman and Dr. Burkhart talking with Sir Albert Levy, English tobacconist, and Lord George Allardice Riddell, newspaperman. Signor Giacomo De Martini. Italian Ambassador at Washington, and Professor Amadeo Perna, foremost Italian dentist and a deputy in the Italian Parliament, interested the Rochester man in the needs of Romans. Two years ago two sons of Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, Prince Gustaf Adolf and Prince Sigvard, visited Mr. Eastman in Rochester. A few months later...
...John Oliver. Richard Teller 2nd was first U. S. Minister to Czechoslovakia, serving as such at the same time that his father was Minister to China. John Oliver is a former secretary to President Thomas Masaryk of Czechoslovakia, last year married in Rome the beautiful Countess Theresa Martini Marescotti. A sister of John Oliver, Frances, is married to Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakian Minister to Great Britain...
Count Ernesto Rossi of Martini & Rossi (makers of Vermouth, contributors to fine cocktails), arrived in Manhattan last week on business. Said he: "Americans as a class are not drinking people, although the cocktail habit seems to be regarded as a more or less desirable social amenity. . . . Americans [in Europe, where he has seen them] are divided into two classes: the Drys and the Dry Martinians." Asked by a reporter if he favored Prohibition, said he: "But for Italy-No. . . . We Italians are not blessed with the great sense of humor the Americans possess...
...Paris, boulevardiers dropped coins into a new machine which rewarded them with jazz tunes and Martini, Bronx or Sidecar cocktails...
Exhibit A is a series of perfect simulations of the U. S. Federal Reserve Bank $100 note of 1914, bearing the portrait of Benjamin Franklin. Last November the old and reputable Berlin banking firm of Sass & Martini, established in 1842, sent over a packet containing $6,000 of these bills in the course of ordinary business with the Deutsche Bank. That impeccable institution passed them on to the National City Bank of New York. Since the Federal Reserve some time ago decided to withdraw the 1914 series of $100 notes from circulation, the National City passed...