Word: realtor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Habits. Lowell Schmaltz inhabits Zenith, the hypothetical midwestern town boomed by the famed realtor George F. Babbitt...
Last week, the ship-news reporter of the New York Times, went down New York Bay, boarded the incoming S. S. Majestic, examined the passenger list, sought interviews. Joseph Paul Day, Manhattan realtor, "who has auctioned off more than a billion dollars worth of real estate during his career," was the hero of the article the newsgatherer subsequently wrote. "Among his fellow passengers were H. E. Mansville of Johns-Mansville, Inc., W. R. Timken of the Timken Roller Bearing Co. and Bowman Gray of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco...
...Jackson was their great-granduncle and great-grand-foster-father. Children of his own Andrew Jackson had none. But he adopted and named Andrew Jackson Jr. his dead wife's sister's son, descendant of Inventor Eli Whitney of cotton gin fame. The present Andrew Jackson, a Los Angeles realtor, and the missing Albert Marble Jackson, were brought up at "The Hermitage," historic Jackson plantation near Nashville, Tenn. Before vanishing, reputedly by steamer to Europe, Albert Marble Jackson is thought to have disposed of valuable Jacksoniana from "The Hermitage...
Vincent Astor tutored valiantly to enter Harvard, whence after a year undistinguished scholastically, socially tranquil, he departed when his father disappeared with the Titanic. Since leaving Cambridge he has handled, somewhat gingerly, his huge heritage of real estate, an able but not an avid realtor...
Last month, Tammany Hall, famed Manhattan political lair, was sold for $700,000. Last fortnight, the vigilant New York World reported the property resold for $800,000. None cried "Graft!" But Tammanyites asked, "Who profited?" Joseph P. Day, whose reputation as a realtor in and about Manhattan is no less illustrious than Peter Minuit's,* had handled both the sale and the speedy resale. The question having arisen, Mr. Day announced that the resale price was $770,000. The question being pressed, Mr. Day agreed that the 10% profit should go to Tammany Hall...