Word: return
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...concerned. For it was Paul M. Warburg who organized the International Acceptance Bank in 1921. Born in Hamburg in 1868, Paul M. Warburg entered a Hamburg export house at 18, entered the House of Warburg at 20. Followed experience in English, in French banking houses, a world tour, a return to Hamburg, and, in 1896, membership in the Warburg firm. In 1894 Mr. Warburg had married Nina, daughter of Solomon Loeb of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. In 1902 he came to live in the U. S., became partner in Kuhn-Loeb, in which Brother Felix had been a partner since...
...unsophisticated speakeasy proprietors. So thought one Thomas Harris, alias James Marshall, of Brooklyn. His technique: enter speakeasy, consume drinks, ask pointed questions, drop dark hints, increase hints to threats if necessary, pretend to "telephone headquarters" and show a fake revolver (cigaret case) if absolutely necessary. If threatened in return or asked to show a badge, leave discreetly. The underworld name for this whole act is "shake-down...
Thomas Woodrow Wilson found out that it may be a mistake to return from Europe with new-fangled ideas, and so, last week, did King Amanullah of Afghanistan...
...paint. When he died in 1903, he left a studio cluttered with his own work and that of his friends (Mary Cassatt, Monet, Manet, Seurat, Cezanne). Until last week these were kept as mementos by the Pissarro family. Then they sold them at auction in Paris. The total return was about...
...even more spectacular Biddle venture was consummated simultaneously with the Television launching. Always a sportsman, himself a boxer of the first order, Anthony Biddle last week inaugurated a return to the sporting traditions of a hundred years ago by buying, for his personal amusement, an interest in a professional fighter. The fighter was René De Vos, Belgian contender for the middleweight championship; sports - writers laughed merrily for days at the notion ot a respectable person engaging in the fight racket and of a decently dressed and wellspoken person undertaking to pat and rub a bloody pugilist between the rounds...