Word: realtors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seeking Divorce. Luella Gear Heckscher, musicomedienne (Gay Divorce); from G. Maurice Heckscher, Manhattan realtor, son of Philanthropist August Heckscher. Charge: mental cruelty...
...cheery" description, along with the smile, would indicate that he has also inherited the wit and humor for which his father "Sam Lapowski" was known, well illustrated by the following story, I often tell, to illustrate like situations: Sam Lapowski's El Paso neighbor was one Stevens, pioneer realtor, robust, energetic, a veritable fanatic on exercise which often found vent in "sunrise lawn-mowing." One day Lapowski burst into Stevens' office demanding that he (Stevens) desist from his sunrise activities or permit him to hire his mowing done at a more sane and reasonable hour. In explaining...
...Richard Whitney* of the New York Stock Exchange, Vice President Charles G. Taylor Jr. of Metropolitan Life (world's biggest), President Henry Bruere of Bowery Savings Bank (world's biggest), Joseph P. Day, if not the world's biggest, easily the world's most famed realtor, and many another tycoon of finance were to be found in the aldermanic chamber of Manhattan's City Hall. They were there to testify, not under subpoena, but on their own initiative-to argue with Samuel Untermyer, baiter of stock exchanges and great corporations. Mr. Untermyer had them...
...Hyde Park vacation over, President Roosevelt cruised down the Hudson as the guest of Vincent Astor, realtor, banker, backer of the forthcoming weekly Today (see p. 24). With them were half a dozen non-political friends-the same group that fished together off Florida last February just before Chicago's Mayor Cermak was assassinated at Miami. Above the Nourmahal floated the Presidential flag-four white stars on a blue field. President Roosevelt thought it was the first time in U. S. history that that emblem had been used on a private yacht. Heeling the Nourmahal were two naval watchdogs...
...board was the election of a chairman, a post vacant since March 4 when bald, bumbling Atlee Pomerene, Hoover appointee, was forced out by the Senate's refusal to confirm his nomination. Together went the Woodin, Couch and McCarthy heads. When they came apart Jesse Jones, Houston publisher, realtor, banker, lumberman and promoter, found himself unanimously elected R. F. C. chairman. Chairman Jones has been on the R. F. C. board since its inception (February 1932), has acted as chairman in rotation with the other three active members for two months. He has seen R. F. C. loan resources...