Word: realtors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...owns a $50,000 piece of real estate, he may have to sacrifice $20,000 or $25,000 for an immediate sale. His land has no immediate market. It is an asset, but it is a frozen asset. From a merchandising standpoint, the realtor handles an excellent product but is handicapped by a primitive distribution system...
When such an educational process has been completed, and the public is as ready to become a profit-sharing real estate partner as it is to become a profit-sharing partner in General Motors, the realtor, now dealing in readily negotiable securities, will find his once frozen assets now thawed, liquid and disposable...
...Lefcourt, in some quarters considered Most Potent Realtor, came from Russia. His first U. S. job was blacking boots. His most recent achievement was the opening of his own bank, the Lefcourt Normandie National Bank. He has specialized in building industrial centres...
Russia supplied another outstanding realtor in Irwin S. Chanin, better half of Chanin Bros., though Henry I. Chanin is also able, active. Mr. Chanin was born in the U. S. of Russian parents who, however, took him back to Russia, then brought him back again, this time no more to roam. His father was a painter-plasterer in Brooklyn. Irwin also painted, plastered by day, went to Cooper Institute by night, won a prize for designing a bridge and got an engineering job in subway construction. During the War he helped build speedily erected laboratories for making poison...
Engaged. Arthur Eugene French, captain of the 1928 Harvard football team, son and namesake of the late Boston architect; to Miss Pauline Pope Day, daughter of Joseph Paul Day, potent Manhattan realtor...