Word: mayfield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Voluble Edward Stanlaw Jordan, president of Jordan Motor Car Co. (in receivership), waved a 5? cigar at a newsman in Cleveland and told of his impoverishment. "For a time I was simply crushed. I hardly knew what to do. If the news got around to the Mayfield Club or Pepper Pike Club that I had lost my step-ins, think what would happen to my social standing. . . . But the best philosophy I ever heard can be expressed in three words - 'don't kid yourself.' That realization helped me to cure my Depression." Because clergymen objected, a playlet...
...William Thompson Dewart, who is now president of the New York Sun, took a bulky envelope to an apartment in Manhattan's then-fashionable Fifth Avenue Hotel. He was ceremoniously received by an imperious little old lady, her sister and her daughter. The little old lady was Ida Mayfield Wood, whose husband, Col. Benjamin Wood, brother of onetime Mayor Fernando Wood of Manhattan, had died the year before. Col. Wood had been publisher of the New York Daily News* a Tammany Hall mouthpiece which lifted most of its news and somehow managed to earn $100,000 a year. Since...
...half of his winnings from the gaming tables of the Manhattan Club and Saratoga, as much as $75,000 at a time.) One by one, Mr. Dewart handed each bill to Mrs. Wood who examined it minutely, passed it for further scrutiny to her sister, Miss Mary E. Mayfield, to her daughter Emma and to the hotel manager. When all had nodded approval, the sum was noted as paid. In 1907, thoroughly frightened by the financial panic, Mrs. Wood drew all her money out of the banks, virtually disappeared with her daughter and sister...