Word: palmers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Palmer House, Just 13 days before John Drake scampered out of the path of the fire to buy himself a new hotel, Potter Palmer swung wide the doors of Chicago's finest hostelry. Like most of Chicago it was burned to the ground. But the grizzled bon-vivant who had sold his drygoods store to Levi Leiter and Marshall Field because he thought his days were numbered, lived to see a new Palmer House become Chicago's first world-famed hotel. Its barber shop (floor studded with silver dollars) set the fashion for every first-class saloon west...
...finest publicity the old Palmer House ever had was provided by Potter Palmer's wife. From her great castellated mansion on Lake Shore Drive she drove Chicago society for 40 years. There she entertained Edward of Wales for whose favor as Edward VII of Britain she later waged mighty social campaigns in London. Potter Palmer took little part in his beauteous wife's gyrations, often slipped away from levees to spend an evening with his cronies. His mile of State Street real estate grew vastly more important than the hotel. The present Palmer House, a leading commercial hotel...
...reminiscent of a similar ceremony twenty-five years ago at the time of the retirement of President Eliot. On that occasion, the meeting was presided over by LeBaron R. Briggs '75, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus, and the address was given by the late G. H. Palmer '64, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, Emeritus...
...problem of disposing of the late Professor Palmer's house which stands in the corner of the Yard at Quincy and Harvard Streets appears at first glance to be an easy one, yet there are such a number of possibilities, that it will not be easy to decide for what purpose the house would be best adapted. Two requirements, however, do seem essential. The use to which the building is put should in no way transform its physical exterior or interior, nor should it be made use of for any purpose which will not be of some benefit or enjoyment...
...fine pres-ent to loyal subjects. Last week's birthday honors list, shorter than usual, contained but four new peerages, all baronies: one for George Lane-Fox, former Parliamentary Secretary for Mines; one for Publisher Sir Edward Iliffe of the Daily Telegraph; one for Vice President Sir Ernest Palmer of the Royal College of Music; one for Major General J. E. B. Seely for his work in Britain's vast war loan conversion campaign. Prince George did not get the dukedom from his father that British newspapers were expecting, but the hard-working Duke of Gloucester was made...