Word: pocantico
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...plasters thousands of vehicles with posters allegedly seen by 1,200,000,000 people per month. He heads a string of affiliated advertising firms, several utility concerns and a group of Florida development companies. He entertains elaborately, owns a country home next to John D. Rockefeller's at Pocantico Hills, N. Y. and a castle near Baden Baden which he bought from the Krupps...
...seen her since she returned to the U. S. in 1921 with Mr. Krenn. Although Brother John is not thought to have aided his sister to a great extent, the reconciliation is said to be such that soon she may pay a visit to the Rockefeller Patriarch at Pocantico Hills. Chicago imagines that when she does, Mr. Krenn will not accompany her. For much as the Rockefellers respect his untiring devotion, and his confidence that she "will again be the richest woman in Chicago," they have had small respect for the business advice he gave the Dowager at the Drake...
...Mondanne, the Stillman 55-room chalet at Pocantico Hills, N. Y. which was being opened for Dr. Stillman & family's summer occupancy, burned to the ground last week. The private fire brigade from the Rockefeller estate just to the south was handicapped by lack of fire hydrants...
John Davison joined early but never attends meetings. He has sent busses to convey one district of R. F. A. membership to a picnic on his Pocantico Hills estate, absenting himself the while. Last year, when twelve persons qualified for a badge signifying 25 years of membership, John Davison, who has paid his dues several years in advance, was sent a special Rockefeller coat-of-arms (leaves, rocks, horns of plenty quartered) signifying the sole life-membership...
John Davison Rockefeller, astute nonogenarian with potent holdings in National City Bank, who reputedly advised the younger Stillman to resign the institution's presidency because of scandal ten years ago. Grandfather of the groom, he kept to his home in Pocantico Hills, N. Y., sent his blessing...