Word: realtors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seller: Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp. The buyer: Frederick Brown, realtor. The price: circa $6,000,000. The Hippodrome's fate: presumably to be demolished, a fraternal organization's Manhattan home to be built on the site...
...being made by the National Association to raise the standards throughout this country and Canada of the real estate brokerage business. Tremendous progress has been made in this respect and a great deal if not most of it is due to the effectiveness and value of the term "Realtor" in symbolizing this effort...
...issue of the TIME on page 14 under the heading "China" reference is made to "Realtors" in that country. These statements would indicate that the writer is not fully cognizant of the true and strict meaning of the term "Realtor." We are glad to call this meaning to your attention because the term is a tradename and it is of vital importance to us that the public at no time attach to the term some other meaning than it has as such tradename...
...term "Realtor" was coined in 1916 and defined by the National Association of Real Estate Boards to mean a person engaged in the real estate business who is an active member of a Member Board of the National Association of Real Estate Boards...
NATHAN WILLIAM MACCHESNEY National Association of Real Estate Boards, Chicago, Ill. Let subscribers note well that TIME will invariably designate "active members of member boards of the National Association of Real Estate Boards" as "Realtors." In conformance with general usage, TIME may also refer to any person who traffics or dabbles in real estate as a "realtor." Thus, while all "Realtors" are "realtors," not all "realtors" are "Realtors."-ED. Camel & Chesterfield Magazine Sirs: Your excellent publication might easily be termed the Chesterfield of magazines-"it satisfies," and from my personal viewpoint the word Camel would certainly apply...