Word: realtor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Realtor Fred Fillmore French began buying land on the lower East Side. By swearing his 42 brokers to secrecy and using dummy corporations, he managed to get some 15 acres for $5,000,000. Then in 1931 he announced a grandiose scheme for the erection of a $50,000,000 development for junior Wall Street executives. At this point he found that he could not get credit. At the same time Fred F. French Operators, Inc. began passing its dividends on $14,000,000 of preferred stock. The project remained only a scheme with a staggering upkeep in land taxes...
...Frank Finley Merriam had stayed in Iowa where he was born 68 years ago he would have been spared a lot of trouble last week. He taught school, published a newspaper, gravitated from the Midwest to Long Beach. Calif., became a bank president, a realtor, a Knight of Pythias, a politician, and six weeks ago upon the death of James Rolph Jr., Governor of California just in time to face the best brand of California dynamite?a strike...
Charles Leavitt Hyde, banker, realtor, cattleman, rates himself largest landowner, wealthiest citizen, heaviest taxpayer in the State. Last week the Midwest drought was still unbroken. In South Dakota the Government considered transplanting thousands of families to State farms, buying hundreds of thousands of doomed cattle...
Married. Dorothy ("Sunshine") Browning, 19, adopted daughter of Edward W. ("Daddy") Browning. Manhattan realtor and orphan fancier; and Clarence B. Hood, 20, laundryman of Dunn, N. C.; in Manhattan...
...services to the police as informer, worms his way into the secret councils of a radical society. Politician Gurau allows himself to be persuaded by Oilman Sammécaud that being given control of a newspaper is not bribery. His mistress, Germaine, gets further entangled in the market. Realtor Haverkamp begins to get his finger in some real pies. The liberals at Sampeyre's salon talk gloomily of impending...