Word: meyer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great oil generals were rubbing their hand; in anticipation of battle. One was Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, head of Royal Dutch Shell, who from across the sea has kept his eye upon the progress of Shell in the home grounds of Socony. The other was Charles F. Meyer, President of Socony who from a vantage point nearer at hand has watched and waited...
Diamonds. Tormented are many U. S. customsmen and all legitimate jewelers by the smuggling of small, easily hidden precious stones. Honest diamond dealers, undersold by the smuggled article, have banded together into the American Jewelers Protective Association of which Meyer Rothschild of Manhattan is president. This organization, touchy and suspicious, cooperates with U. S. agents to prevent diamond smuggling, receives tips on smugglers, collects U. S. rewards for incentive to smuggle...
...Later Socialists in Congress, both from New York: Meyer London (1915–'19; 1921-23), Fiorella Henry La Guardia (1917-19; 1923- ). Mr. La Guardia, now Republican designee for Mayor of New York, was temporarily (1925-27) tagged a Socialist when endorsed by that party. He denounced the label as a "dirty Republican trick...
...Congress closed with the election of a coalition executive board, headed by Dr. Weizmann including three names famed in U. S. Jewry: Lotus Lipsky, Zionist editor of Manhattan, and Publicist Henrietta Szold and Rabbi Meyer Berlin, two one-time Manhattanites now living in Jerusalem. All eyes then turned toward Zurich Town Hall and the first council meeting of the All-Jewish Union...
...Miss Cross steadied, won the next sets 6-4, 6-2. But Miss Mary Greef will not again go unseeded at Essex. She lives in Kansas City. She is 19, a supple, medium-size blonde. She puts more body into her shots than most girls. Her friend Carl Meyer taught her how to play, the man who taught Wilbur F. ("Junior") Coen Jr. (later Tildenized...