Word: publicational
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago Philanthropist Julius Rosenwald, board chairman of Sears Roebuck Co. guaranteed the margin accounts of all his employes. Two days later Chicago's public utility tycoon and opera promoter Samuel Insull announced that he would do the same thing. And so did Samuel W. Reyburn, president of Manhattan's department store Lord & Taylor. But the climax came when the wizened little man who lives in the fortressed home in Pocantico Hills, N. Y., said: "My son and I have for some days past been purchasing sound common stock." In memory of many a trader in Wall Street, John D. Rockefeller...
...last previous public utterance: "I have every reason to be grateful on my ninetieth birthday. Everybody has been so kind and good to me all year...
...year to provide employment for Eastman Theatre musicians when that theatre was leased to Publix Corp. The new orchestra, composed of 50 players (nucleus of the Philharmonic), financed by 10,000 Rochesterians, has begun a season of 75 concerts, 32 of which will be given free during schooltime to public and parochial students, 32 on Sunday afternoons with small admission charges...
Friends of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson were just as surprised as friends of Irene Bordoni, musicomedienne (Paris), to see Mrs. Wilson's name under Miss Bordoni's picture by mistake in the Philadelphia Public Ledger. Last week's news of the two ladies...
Dramatic critics, like oldtime court jesters, have more than poet's license. The monarch public, easy to amuse, hard to offend, suffers them gladly. Avowedly criticizing plays, they sometimes overindulge in gossip, in personalities. Some days they go too far. Manhattan has its suave George Jean Nathan. London has emaciated Hannen Swaffer...