Word: palmers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Customs Court) ; Annabel Mathews, first woman member of the U. S. Board of Tax Appeals; Mabel G. Reinecke, first woman collector of internal revenue (Northern Illinois) ; Jean W. Wittich, first woman state budget commissioner (Minnesota) ; Earlene White, first postmistress of the U. S. Capitol Building. At the Palmer House two days later another conclave of women began : the International Congress of Women of a Century of Progress. To preside over it came Lena Madesin Phillips, Manhattan lawyer, organizer and onetime president of the Federation of Business & Professional Women's Clubs. She opened the conference with the gavel used...
...best time, and was benefiting by the exhilaration which athletes usually feel for the first few days in a strange land. After the gun cracked, Hazen set the pace for the first quarter-mile, Bonthron and Lovelock at his heels. Officials and athletes under bright umbrellas in Palmer Stadium's centre field shook their heads. The runners were going much too fast. In the third quarter Horan moved out front. It proved to be the slowest part of the race, but fast enough to prevent Horan from finishing. Then Bonthron, a bit ahead of Lovelock, took the lead...
...Palmer died, not at the scene of her greatest social triumphs but in far-off Florida. She left an estate of $15,000,000 of which her Son Potter Jr. was active manager...
Last week Potter Palmer Jr. bought it back for an estimated $1,500,000. He proposed to develop it as a smart hotel. A slight, shy, curly-headed man who dislikes society as much as his father did, Potter Palmer Jr. lives quietly in an Astor Street triplex apartment filled with Chinese art (he is president of Chicago's Art Institute). He and his beauteous wife, now summering at Bar Harbor, have four children and though Potter III has a daughter, there is as yet no Potter...
...First dollar inlay was in the Palmer House barber shop, whence the idea spread to saloons all over the land...