Word: realtors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Pauline Pope Day, wife of Joseph Paul Day, famed realtor and auctioneer; after a brief illness; in Short Hills...
...husband. Died. Frederic Cook Morehouse, 64, editor of The Living Church; of a heart attack; in Milwaukee. He was an active lay-leader in the Anglo-Catholic group of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He survived his wife by one day. Died. Paris Eugene Singer, 66, famed sportsman and Florida realtor (Palm Beach Everglades Club); of heart disease; in London. Intimate friend of Dancer Isadora Duncan (he was the "Lohengrin" of her autobiography), he and Otto Hermann Kahn once planned to take Manhattan's Madison Square Garden and convert it into a temple of art and music...
...days prior, Inquisitor Seabury had questioned an old client of the Mayor's, one Abraham Schwartz, showman and realtor. Showman Schwartz reconstructed the scene of the Mayor's introducing him to Fugitive Sherwood: " 'Abe,' he says, 'I am the Mayor of the City of New York now, and all transactions of business-take it up with Sherwood, whatever he does, it suits...
...Senator Pepper. But it is Bishop Freeman, chiefly, who gets the gifts. Biggest givers include: the late Rug Manufacturer Alexander Smith Cochran of Yonkers ($1,510,000 for the College of Preachers) ; the late Banker George Fisher Baker ($750,000 for the completion of the North Transept); the late Realtor & Mrs. Archibald D. Russell of New York ($500,000 for the apse); the late Minister to Austria-Hungary John A. Kasson of Washington ($554,300 for general maintenance); Mr. & Mrs. Frederick H. Prince of Boston ($215,000 for a chapel in memory of their son Norman, War ace). The small...
...Chicago, after paying $32,500 of alimony in 13 years, Garfield J. Schieferstein, onetime rich realtor who lived "like a hermit in one of my vacant flats, with a bed and a chair as my only furniture," committed suicide. He left a note: "I leave this world because I have been ruined by my wife and the laws and courts that make the racket of alimony possible. ... I had the grief and my wife had the gravy. Goodby, world, you are too much...