Word: metropolitanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...compares with profits of $129,250,207 for the first six months of 1927. Retail sales totaled 1,062,733 cars, as against 840,481 last year. Out of its plenty, General Motors made a great and generous gesture. It dickered for a time with Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., then announced a contract for a $400,000,000 life, sickness and accident policy, open to any employe from President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., to Jacob Hazay, who works a grinding machine at the Detroit plant. Jacob Hazay earns $32 a week. To share in the insurance plan, he must...
...Union Trust Co., Cleveland. To assist him in the East, Mr. Nutt picked out a Manhattanite, Jeremiah Milbank, mild-mannered Yale graduate ('09), careful investor of a multi-million patrimony; clubman, generous donor to philanthropies (especially for cripples); director of such concerns as the Southern Railway, Metropolitan Life, Chase National Bank, Corn Products; board chairman of Case, Pomeroy & Co. Like Banker Nutt and the Democracy's Raskob, Mr. Milbank is new-to politics but widely acquainted, keen to learn...
Using a queer,concave-faced, wooden putter, Thomas Armour won the Metropolitan Open Golf Championship last week, at the Shackamaxon Country Club, Westfield, N. J. John Farrell, National Open champion, finished second...
...Metropolitan Pool, the Bronx, Mrs. Myrtle Huddleston, 30, widow, kept her 240 Ibs. afloat for 54 hours, 28 minutes. Then she collapsed, sank in three feet of water, and two men grabbed her out of the pool. She had swum for a longer time than any man or woman in the history of the world. Her legs and arms were swollen, her skin very tender...
...voices will be added to the Metropolitan's census. It was interesting to speculate upon which one of these the fierce light of publicity would beat, during the white winter, causing utterances like the "divine spark" speech of Grace Moore, and bringing from far haunts rude, related delegations like the one which attended Marion Talley's debut. Marek Windheim was not in line for these honors : had he been a soprano even, he would still have been a Pole and the Poles are too remote for human interest stories. Aida Doninelli, a Central American diva, would be likewise...