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...holiday bathers off the private beach of his home, Ormston House at Locust Valley, L. I., they pelted him with stones. Next day a private police booth was erected on Banker Aldred's estate which is flanked by the homes and beaches of George Fisher Baker, Mrs. Henry Pomeroy Davison and John Pierpont Morgan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 15, 1931 | 6/15/1931 | See Source »

Virtuous Husbands (Universal). "Remember that your wife is a shrinking violet," wrote Pansy Pomeroy, conductor of a colyum of advice to the lovelorn, in one of the countless letters of guidance which she left her son, Elliott Nugent. So in a hotel in Niagara Falls, while his wife is waiting for him in bed, Nugent sleeps on a sofa in the parlor. This honeymoon scene was the one which the audience, like the bride, had been looking forward to, but it is staged so much in the spirit of good clean Will-Haysian fun that it loses even the little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 18, 1931 | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...substantial interest in Thomas Young Nurseries, a New Jersey orchid farm, and is a large holder of Missouri-Kansas-Texas Rr. (100,321 shares). It has large tobacco investments including 102,-580 P. Lorillard, 29,000 Liggett & Myers. It has a "special interest" of 55,109 shares of Case, Pomeroy & Co., a securities house whose shares appear also in Reynolds Investing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Tri-Continental | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

Last month 100 jobless miners from the barren little coal settlement of Pity-Me, Ohio, marched seven miles to Pomeroy. There in Common Pleas Court they declared their women and children were naked and starving. The Red Cross, they said, had refused to give them any relief. They asked legal permission to go out upon the Pomeroy streets and beg for pennies. This request was denied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Miners' Miseries | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

...next time Howard and Ivy met was the following year at Pomeroy, Ohio, in the lobby of the Riverside House. Howard was still peddling ladies' ready-to-wear, but Ivy was now giving the Salvation Army the benefit of her vocal talents. She was able to persuade Howard not to go out on a party in the company of two other traveling salesmen?a canned goods agent and the portly representative of a mortuary supply ("underground novelties") in Chicago. With every good intention the neighborly desk clerk put Ivy in the room next to Howard's. When Ivy came into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 8, 1930 | 9/8/1930 | See Source »

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