Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When famed Manhattan lawyer Samuel Untermyer reached Bangkok, Siam, recently, on the world cruise of the S. S. Belgenland he was greeted with no lilting stanzas, but rather by an imperial "command" to appear at the Siamese Court and be received in audience by perky little King Pracha Tipok (TIME, March 8, 1926) and his placid, portly Queen...
...Samuel Gompers, widow of the late president of the American Federation of Labor: "I was fined $2 last week in Manhattan for failure to muzzle my dog, even though I insisted that nature had neglected to provide my pet with a suitably sized nose...
...Iceman. Twenty-one years ago one Samuel Rubel, immigrant from Riga (Latvia), peddled ice in Brooklyn. Now he is president of Rubel Coal & Ice Co. and worth $25,000,000. But withal he is not a nice man, declared sundry petty ice peddlers, when Mr. Rubel tried to freeze them out of business the past year by giving free ice to their customers. For that, the Kings County grand jury last week indicted him, and 28 people sued him for damages...
...Cutts '28; Sidney Darlington '28; E. P. Dean '29; D. L. Dickson '27; H. J. Donahue '27; H. B. Elkins '28; L. P. Feinberg '27; Robert Fienberg '28; William Finkelstein '29; G. A. Flagg '28; J. C. T. Flexner '29; H. F. Folland '29; J. S. Gallo '27; Samuel Gilman '27; Abraham Ginsburg '27; R. J. Goldwater '29; W. F. Green '28; J. L. Greenstein '29; D. S. Gruber '29; A. J. Harris '28; H. F. Hart '28; C. H. Hartwig '28; L. H. Heimerdinger Jr. '28; L. R. Henrich Jr. '29; P. M. Herzog Jr. '27; Louis Horvitz...
Roxy-Fox. William Fox (Fox Film Corp. and the owner of 30 cinema theatres) last week bought Samuel L. ("Roxy") Rothafel's new Roxy Theatre, largest cinema house in the world (6,200 seats) and eleven more "Roxy" theatres now abuilding, for $15,000,000. Twenty years ago William Fox began business with the smallest theatre in Manhattan (146 seats). One Herbert Lubin is "Roxy's" money backer...