Word: opened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shot came a few minutes before banks were due to open. That morning the doors of Plum's comparatively small Folkebank (capital $1,600,000) remained locked. Cousin Bretteville Plum, the bank's Managing Director, scouted the police theory that Tycoon Plum had intended to commit suicide. Stock of the Folkebank dropped only 15 points. Hours dragged by, with Plum the Great unconscious...
...while at Columbia University and went to Paris in 1880, entered the Ecole des Beaux Arts where he studied architecture in the atelier of Jules André. In Paris he became imbued with the great French tradition but, never an academician, he returned to the U. S. with an open mind bent upon adapting his learning to U. S. limitations. In the firm of McKim, Mead & White, where he spent his apprenticeship, he shared a draughting board with John Merven Carrère. They quit McKim, Mead & White and hung out their own shingle. Soon they had a commission from...
Frank Jay Gould said that he had the French Government's permission to open a gambling casino in a palace near Nice, that he was licensed to conduct all forms of gambling, that his casino would be ten times as large as the one at Monte Carlo, would have a room containing 42 tables, seating 600 players. Said he: "My announcement is the best answer to reports undoubtedly instigated by jealous rival casinos and broadcasted last summer that the palace would be turned into an automobile garage...
...South open at Pinehurst...
...Hawaiian open at Honolulu...