Word: philadelphians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowded Negro slum. By the time the twins, next to last of the ten Leibovitz children, began drawing and coloring, the family lived in bitter poverty. Morris Kellerman, president of American Lending Libraries (drugstore chain), discovered them, enabled the family to find a decent home. Samuel Fleisher, public-spirited Philadelphian, crusader for "Cultural Olympics" (TIME, Dec. 7, 1936), got the twins in the Graphic Sketch Club which he supported. At 14 Freda & Ida were girl wonders who insisted on sitting side by side in class, sometimes could not tell their own sketchbooks apart...
...manage this vast registration, Solicitor General Francis Biddle summoned a fellow Philadelphian, Earl Grant Harrison, 41. Mr. Harrison left a wife, three children and a lucrative law practice to help his Government, expects to wind up his job in six months. He anticipates little trouble with recalcitrants, but, just in case, he dropped the reminder that failure to register carries a $1,000 fine and six months in jail...
...weary-looking, blueblooded Philadelphian, Fitz Eugene Newbold, partner in the 96-year-old house of W. H. Newbold's Son & Co., filed a registration statement with SEC three weeks ago, was preparing this week to sell $500,000 of stock to lease the mine from its owners, Philadelphians William and Mary Lord Sexton. Terms of the lease: $20,241 cash, at least $10,000 a year plus 10% of the gross. Trusting chiefly to the mine's great record, the Newbold syndicate has taken no new samples at New Almaden. It underlined the words "very speculative...
Through the red flare of the Tragic Era, while Andrew Johnson was being laid on the cross and Philadelphian Jay Cooke, financier of the Civil War, was riding to ruin in the panic of 1873, J. P. Morgan walked cool and incisive, supremely confident of the future of America. At 32 he whipped Dan Drew, Jim Fisk and Jay Gould in their attempt to loot the Albany & Susquehanna R. R., saw its stock climb from $18 to $118 when he lifted the road out of receivership. It was his first real fight. Before gaudy Jim Fisk had left the Wall...
...crass seduction distinguished Philadelphia's appeal, as five orators on-&-onned, pledged good weather (a perilous undertaking, even if the convention date had been set), displayed a certified check for $125.000. Sneered Philadelphian Kelly of Chicagoan Kelly's righteous appeal, "I can't imagine Jim Farley thinking there is anything indecent about $125,000." and promised that delegates would have a good time, said that "no place will be closed at four o'clock, not even Independence Hall...