Word: roosevelt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...being president he retired to his country place in Virginia and took up his pen to continue influencing the country's history. President Grant stove off the fatal hand of cancer until his famous Memoirs were completed. Literary work alone would be enough to insure the fame of Theodore Roosevelt's name. Tomorrow morning Calvin Coolidge carries the tradition into Mr. Hearst's Cosmopolitan Magazine...
Pride of the Bowman-Biltmore hotel system is Manhattan's Biltmore. Pride of the United Hotels Chain is Manhattan's Roosevelt. Soon Biltmore and Roosevelt, already next-door neighbors, may be financial as well as topographical companions. For last week, widely, convincingly rumored, was a Bowman-Biltmore-United Hotel merger that would create a $50,000,000 hotel chain with more than 100 units, with over 20,000 rooms...
...decided that Albany had no hotel worthy of the State capital. He built the Ten Eyck. Later, his second hotel - the Onondaga, Syracuse - was built. Then came the Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia, the Bancroft in Worcester, Mass., the President in Kansas City, the Prince Edward in Windsor, Canada, the Roosevelt in Manhattan and many another...
...Thomas W. Lamont and George Whitney are present Guaranty Morganites. President of Guaranty Trust is blond William Chapman Potter, onetime mining engineer; Chairman of its Board is swarthy Charles Hamilton Sabin, onetime Massachusetts farm-boy. They are brothers-in-law, their wives being daughters of the late Paul Morton, Roosevelt's Secretary of the Navy...
Favorite character in history: Napoleon, 29; Lincoln, 14; Roosevelt, 11; Cleopatra, Lee, and Bismarck, 6; Hannibal...