Word: realtor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Florida realtor followed Bryan's motor in another bungalow on wheels, placarded : "Ask us about Tampa ! Ask us ! Ask us!" Countered Mr. Bryan, himself a Miami, Fla., realtor: "You don't need to ask us about Miami...
Miami, Florida, the hotel town, the real-estate-boom town, the Nassau bootleggers' town, the rich Northerners' villa town, decided to have a $15,000,000 University of Miami. Among the incorporators so deciding were Realtor William Jennings Bryan, his daughter Ruth Bryan, James M. Cox, onetime (1913-15, 1917-21) Governor of Ohio. Last week, the incorporators announced their decision, at the same time revealing that they had offered the presidency to Dr. William Lyon Phelps, teacher of English at Yale for 33 years, Lampson professor there since...
...Phelps was not attracted. It may have been the climate that did not appeal to him. It may have been the people. It may have been Realtor Bryan's dismally backward, widely advertised views on education. In any case, Dr. Phelps refused. Said he: "I should be very much tempted by this offer, which I regard as a great honor, if I had not made up my mind to live and die at Yale...
...Newhall, Boston realtor and owner of the property upon which the proposed theatre would stand, said that although such plans had been broached upon by a certain moving, picture firm, he had as yet made no definite arrangements and could make no statement as to the name of the firm or the probability of the establishment of a theatre on his property. When approached upon the subject by a CRIMSON reporter, Mr. Newhall said, "No definite transactions have taken place, and I have no authority to make any statement upon the idea of a theatre at Harvard Square, beyond...
...current talk during the fall and winter about the speculative profits derived from the stock market by Messrs. Durant, Livermore, et al,, some of the extraordinary profits obtained recently in Florida realty have been largely overlooked. Florida has apparently replaced California as the seventh heaven of the "realtor...