Word: realtor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...eggs" passed, announced President William R. Bacon, the Exchange would move to taxfree, divorce-famed Reno, Nev. No idle bluff was Frisco's Stock Exchange making. For last week papers for the incorporation of The San Francisco Stock Exchange Inc. were filed in Reno, and a Reno realtor was readying specifications for a handsome stock exchange building, safely across the line from California...
Twenty-two years later, still on the move (whenever Realtor Dankowske could leave his business), they had worn out some six horses and wagons, bought their first car. Then Fred Dankowske had an inspiration. He designed a motor caravan, paid International Harvester Co. $800 to build it. A two-cylinder high-wheeler, it contained a stove and a folding bed. When the Dankowskes wanted a bath, they dunked themselves in a creek...
Died. Barren Gift Collier, 65, philosopher ("Barren Collier says"), hotelman, realtor, world's No. 1 streetcar-card adman, whose company's posters are said to be seen by 1,200,000,000 people per month; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In 1933, Barren Collier, always a big-time speculator, announced he was broke, declared a moratorium, became the first U. S. tycoon to take advantage of the amendment to the bankruptcy law which President Hoover signed day before he left office...
...Francisco last fortnight Realtor Louis Lurie announced that he had organized a $5,000,000 company to produce pictures written and acted by Mae West. In Hollywood last week Mae West Empire Pictures Inc. was starting groundwork for its first production: Catherine the Great, written and acted by Cinemactress West, to be released early next year...
...Herbert J. Webber, a University of California citrus expert, traveled through the Mediterranean countries, brought back a few citron buds. Some of these he gave to Edwin Giles Hart, an enterprising fruitgrower who was then trying to raise other citrus fruits in La Habra, Calif. Onetime miner and realtor, Edwin Hart has always hunted for new things to produce. He started experimenting with avocados in 1905. Eventually tackling citron, he discovered that it could survive California's climate when grafted to the rough lemon. Three years ago he produced some 10,000 lb. of citron...