Word: moritz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...site where the original bank stood in 1799, the Bank of Manhattan Building bears soaring tribute to the four men (Paul Moritz Warburg, chairman of Manhattan Co.,** James P. Warburg, president of International Manhattan Co., John Stewart Baker, chairman of the executive committee of Manhattan Co., Stephen Baker, chairman of Bank of Manhattan Trust Co.) whose energy and banking prowess have brought their house to its present prominence among other Manhattan banks...
...Practice-by building Bridges of Mutual Appreciation across the Chasms of Prejudice." It is called Threefold because its ideals are cultural, racial and spiritual unity. Prominent U. S. Threefolders: Robert Norwood, dynamic rector of St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, Manhattan; Joseph Fort Newton, famed Philadelphia divine; Banker Paul Moritz Warburg; Journalist Louis Wiley (New York Times); Negro Author James Weldon Johnson; Kansan William Allen White; John Grier Hibben, president of Princeton University...
...London during the winter of 1927 Miss Henie won her first world's championship; and in 1928, her second. The United States was represented by Mirable Vinson, who is also appearing tonight. The Olympic contest, which was conducted in St. Moritz, was won by Miss Henie in competition with 22 women from many different countries...
There is nothing novel in Russian importation of alien architects: a nation without indigenous architecture, most of its monuments in the past have been successively the work of Byzantines, Italians, Frenchmen imported wholesale by such ambitious rulers as Peter I and Catherine the Great. But presently, in Russia, Moritz Kahn with 25 U. S. assistants will organize a Soviet designing bureau of some 4,500 architects and engineers. This bureau will be directed by B. E. Barsky, President of the Soviet Building Commission...
...eleven when, in 1924, she won her first championship for figure skating. She did not skate in the earnest way of most young girls, and when turning an outside left with her arms out she did not look like a pullet. On the lakes at St. Moritz, and the rink at Budapest, in London, Stockholm, she was wildly applauded. She gave a command performance for the Queen of Norway, and afterward the Queen wrote to her brother George V in England and asked him to see Sonja when she was in London. King George did as he was asked...