Word: plaza
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baldorioty Plaza, chief square of San Juan, Puerto Rico, in a comfortable rocking chair, last week sat Professor Clemente Pereda enjoying his Easter vacation from the University of Puerto Rico. There he received the homage of the populace, the visits of Puerto Rican notables. Policemen protected him from the crowds and a street was roped off for his benefit. Professor Pereda was engaged in a patriotic project, a seven-day hunger strike: 1) Against a proposal to make Puerto Rico one of the United States, 2) for Puerto Rican independence...
...Harvey Bailey was arrested while playing on one of the city's best golf courses; 5) Verne Miller had played in a foursome with Police Director E. C. Reppert shortly before he machine-gunned to death four State and Federal officers in Kansas City's Union Station plaza last June;* 6) the $200,000 payoff in the Urschel kidnapping case took place on a Kansas City boulevard; 7) City Manager Henry F. McElroy's daughter Mary was kidnapped almost from under his nose last July and ransomed for $30,000 (TIME, July...
Preceded by European legends of fabulous wealth and lavish living, a big black-haired Briton and a little, grey-haired German arrived in Manhattan last week to do business in frozen German credits. Lieut.-Colonel Francis Norris and Siegfried Wreszynski established headquarters at Manhattan's swank Savoy-Plaza Hotel. "We don't take all the business that comes to us," they declared to reporters. "Perhaps $5,000,000 would be too small. It is just as much trouble to handle $5,000,000 as $100,000,000." They had, they boasted, liquidated a total...
...There is no mystery whatever," said Colonel Norris, who was once secretary to Britain's onetime Postmaster-General Sir Charles Hobhouse, and they deprecated tall tales of the swath they had cut across the Continent. "You see we have only five rooms at the Savoy-Plaza and we should have more with all the business we do," piped Siegfried Wreszynski. "And the telephone is proving a nuisance," said the Colonel. "People arrive in their offices in London, Brussels and Amsterdam at 10:30, and they call us up at the Savoy-Plaza. They don't realize...
...forced to buy or travel in Germany. But Messrs. Wreszynski & Norris will pay more for their marks than legitimate bankers, sometimes 2%, sometimes 10% they say, depending on the individual deal. Last week Manhattan banks which furnish a thawing service regarded the high-powered gentlemen at the Savoy-Plaza with astonishment. As for talk of a $300,000,000 turnover, the bankers laughed...