Word: realtors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House, he turned to law in Manhattan, practiced there 17 years. Never famed, he received public attention for: 1) His notorious defeat when a candidate for the U. S. Senate from California (1898) after which he was charged with election corruption, was later exonerated; 2) His erection, as a realtor, of the U. S. Grant Hotel in San Diego at a cost of $1,500,000; 3) His second marriage, to a Mrs. America Workman Will, which was disapproved by Grant friends...
William B. Ogden, Chicago's first great realtor, was bitterly disappointed when he first arrived, but in the '40s Garlic Creek became the Chicago River. In 1861 Cook County offered $300 for each substitute, to keep the county free of conscription. In 1867 Chicago "had the pick of the best food and nothing remained but to know how to cook it." Bismarck, campaigning against the French, said to General Sherman: "I wish I could see that Chicago...
Douglas Ludlow Elliman, potent Manhattan realtor, through whom (Douglas L. Elliman & Co.) or his competitor-brother (Lawrence B. Elliman of Pease & Elliman Inc.) many a smart Manhattanite obtains his abode, returned from a European yachting trip, reported on the foreign housing situation. His points: in London the trend is toward private homes; apartments ("flats") are "a drug on the ma-ket." In Paris, Athens, Belgrade, Milan and many another continental city, the opposite is true. The co-operative apartment idea has "taken" in Paris...
...Bula Benton Edmondson Croker,* second wife and widow of Tammany Chief Richard Croker, lost the famed Croker-McDonald suit involving the sale of 10,000 feet of Palm Beach ocean frontage. Mrs. Croker had sought to break a nine-year-old option that gave J. B. McDonald, Palm Beach realtor, the privilege of buying for $150 per foot the land now valued at over $700. To Mrs. Croker the difference will be $5,000,000, besides large attorney fees...
...Brooklyn Realtor Joseph M. Gross suggested a real estate exchange to the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce...