Word: metropolitanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the Department of Labor prepared to urge the deportation of Baritone Danise on the ground of moral turpitude.* Baritone Danise was living in Manhattan with the present Signora Danise and their two bambinos. Prosperous, still under contract with the Metropolitan, he said: "I am grateful for the opportunities which America has given me. It would break my heart to leave...
Miss Glenna Collett, of the Westchester Biltmore Club, women's national golf champion, is ranked first among the 1,237 feminine players of the metropolitan district in a list made public last week by the Women's Metropolitan Golf Association. Miss Collett is given a rating of plus two. Miss Maureen Orcutt, of White Beeches, is ranked second at plus one. In third place are three players, Miss Marion Hollins, Westbrook, Miss Martha M. Parker, Westchester Hills, and Mrs. Courtland Smith, Glen Ridge, at scratch...
Many a U. S. citizen, little acquainted with the individuals who head U. S. corporations, has at least long known that venerable HALEY FISKE was president of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Last month, however, Mr. Fiske died (TIME, March 11). Now the U. S. citizen, asked to name Metropolitan's chief, must remember that it is FREDERICK ECKER who heads what President Hoover once termed "the greatest single institution devoted to public welfare." The Metropolitan has in force some $16,000,000,000 of insurance from some 40,000,000 policies; its income is approximately...
...grandfather of the new Metropolitan head served on the staff of one of Napoleon's generals. The father, also an army man, sent Frederick Ecker to a Brooklyn Sunday school of which Joseph Fairchild Knapp, founder of the Metropolitan, was superintendent. At the age of 16, Mr. Ecker got his first Metropolitan job. He distributed mail through the office, worked from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m., received $4 a week. As his present salary is almost $4,000 a week (he is said to receive $200,000 a year), his advancement has been very considerable...
...Ecker has spent the major portion of his 46 Metropolitan years working on the financial and investment side of the business. When the office of comptroller was established (1905) he was its first incumbent; when the company grew to the point where a treasurer was necessary (1906) Mr. Ecker was first treasurer. Since 1906 he has been in charge of all investments...