Word: palms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...period of England's "dominion over palm and pine" [Poet Rudyard Kipling] is now forever over. . . . I have seen . . . in British India . . . how the masses are being affected. . . . No half-hearted measures will meet the situation...
...Democratic State, it will have to be a dry State. I suggest my home be bought for retired Senators and Governors to be used two years from now." Twitted about Florida's notorious Wetness, she added: "Its strong State law is remarkably effective. . . . The drinking in Miami and Palm Beach is perpetrated by privileged people from the North...
Cosden Receivership. In 1925 the most typical example of the oilman whose wells had gushed richly was Joshua S. Cosden, head of Cosden & Co. He had vast estates in Palm Beach and Long Island, entertained lavishly, followed horses as well as stocks. His wealth was estimated at $50,000,000. Surely his expenditures lent veracity to this figure. But after heavy losses in the stockmarket he lost control of Cosden & Co. which became Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp., was reported financially down & out. Three years later his friends financed a projected comeback. He moved from Manhattan to Fort Worth, energetically entered...
Muriel McCormick, daughter of harvester-making Harold McCormick of Chicago, granddaughter of John Davison Rockefeller, received a charter to operate Palm Beach Playhouse Inc. "to encourage a taste for music, literature and the arts through presentation of dramatic or operatic representations" at Palm Beach...
Charles Albert Wight, 31, graduated from Yale in 1922, became vice president of Bankers Trust Co. Young Banker Wight became President of Central Farmers Trust Co. in Palm Beach when he was 28, two years later was made vice president of Farmers Loan & Trust Co., Manhattan. When this bank merged with National City he was made a vice president on the National City Staff, a position which he recently resigned. His rise compares with that of Robert Livingston Clarkson, who became president of Albert Henry Wiggin's Chase National at the age ot 34 and who is now, aged...