Word: realtors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With these figures at his fingertips, it takes Big Dan but a few minutes to persuade Grocer Paddock, Banker Winton, Realtor Jones, Judge Burnes and Major Riley of Westover?members of five different denominations?to accept from him, blushingly, and administer, a foundation of $2,559,494.08 to build three nondenominational "temples" costing $500,000 apiece. Invested at 5%, the $1,059,494.08 surplus over building costs will yield $52,974.70 per annum, or $17,658.23 per temple, or more than five times the annual expenses of each of the 44 present Westover churches. Big Dan explains that preachers, powerless...
Hundreds of persons whom one John J. Carey, realtor and insurance salesman of Atlantic City, N. J., regards as "good prospects," last week received in John J. Carey's envelopes the following letter...
...affiliated gangsters were also murdered last week. Alfonso Fiori, 36, the father of nine children, was found lying in a gutter with his head torn from its moorings by a charge of shotgun slugs. Benjamin J. Schneider, realtor and bootlegger, was shot to death in front of his home...
Click-click . . . click-click . . . click-click . . . click-click. . . click-click . . . click-click . . . click-click . . . click-click . . . click-click. Welker Cochran, 30, Hollywood (Calif.) realtor, had won the international 18.2 balkline billiard tournament at Washington, D. C., turning back among others Willie Hoppe, defending champion, and M. Felix Grange, of France, who had missed his vin ordinaire (TIME, March...
...night and it was not only no fun, but definitely dangerous, to have your ribs caved in during the morning and evening subway stampede. The New York World, in a series of editorials discouraging further skyscrapers, discovered perhaps the most formidable charge of all against them. It found experienced Realtor W. Bourke Harmon stating that only the first two stories of buildings, however tall, produced revenue; the stories above, however many, do well to pay taxes and interest on the investment. Early Manhattan skyscrapers-the first Equitable Building (seven stories, 1869, with its "vertical railroad"), the gold-domed Park...