Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tradesmen in the neighborhood of the Southwold cottage stated that General Booth assumes the name "Bernard" when retiring there for rest. When Salvation Army members visit him they take off their uniforms, appear in plain street clothes...
Gold, Silver, Jewels. In Manhattan, in 1810, when Fifth Avenue was a woodsy suburb, Messrs. Isaac Marquand and Erastus Barton opened a jewelry shop at No. 166 Broadway. A descendant of this store may be seen today in Palm Beach, in Paris, in Manhattan (on Fifth Avenue). The name is now Black, Starr & Frost. Black, Starr & Frost fashioned the Davis Cup for the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association, and for U. S. and European ladies many a rare jewel, notably a $685,000 pink pearl necklace...
...founded (1864) during the crooked financial period of the Civil War. It was then called the New York Guarantee & Indemnity Co. The late Samuel D. Babcock kept its financing reputable through the dishonest '70s. Thereafter its honesty was no longer necessary, for it ceased to exist except as a name and the title owner of a piece of Long Island real estate...
...hence useful. Quickly he reorganized the guaranty & indemnity company as a guaranty trust company. Its capital then (1891) was $100,000, its surplus $720, its undivided profits nil, its deposits nil. Six months later capital was $2,000,000, deposits more than $1,000,000. Thereafter (the corporate name was changed to Guaranty Trust Co. in 1895) growth was sedate, based on insurance policy loans and railroads trusteeships. That is, until Morgan Partner Davison took hold in 1909. He increased capitalization to $5,000,000, absorbed four small banks, attracted great accounts. Next year the bank paid a 32% dividend...
...Father. "Newspapers, as such, hardly deserved the name until this impertinent Scotchman came along. . . .' Before he founded the New York Herald in 1835 as a penny daily, newspapers were essentially windy political and personal organs. James Gordon Bennett gave the public hot news: the first stock table, Wall Street stories (including swindles and names), police reports, scandals. He made a sensation of the murder of a famed courtesan. He pried into the doings of the top social set, which never accepted him. The Herald's stories rollicked with color. He treated religion as news?a fact which annoyed clergymen...