Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Second question reporters wanted to ask John Roosevelt concerned Anne Lindsay Clark, debutante daughter of the late F. Haven Clark, Boston investment counsellor, who last April broke her engagement to Samuel Stevens Sands, grandson of Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt Jr. Last spring, Anne Clark went to Harvard's commencement with John Roosevelt. Last week, she was on hand at Hyde Park to welcome him home. Before reporters got a chance to ask him about the romance, he and Anne Clark set off to motor to Boston. John Roosevelt's ostensible business was to arrange for a room...
Piety. The first murder in Biblical history was whitewashed in this wise by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke of the University of London: "I want to point out that Cain's slaying of Abel was not jealous murder but a ritual for increasing the fertility of the soil. Recent finds in North Syria dating from, about the second millennium B. C. show that it was a ritual to kill a shepherd at the time of the summer drouth and that Cain probably worshiped by killing Abel...
Lots of mystery, lots of intrigue, lots of sock. For nearly three years that has been Managing Editor Louis Ruppel's formula for making the tabloid Daily Times Chicago's liveliest sheet. Shortly after Publisher Samuel Emory Thomason went to the Times early in 1935 he sent a reporter to an Illinois asylum, plastered the Times with inside revelations gained from "Seven Days in the Madhouse!" He headlined Edward VIII's abdication "LONG LOVE THE KING!" and disguised Times photographers as clergymen so they could sneak into a hospital, scoop a picture of an injured motorman after...
Today there are 90 Childs restaurants in 23 U. S. cities and Toronto, Montreal and Winnipeg, Canada. All stem from a lunchroom started in 1889 on Manhattan's Cortlandt Street by Brothers Samuel and William Childs with $1,600 capital. Farm boys from Bernardsville. N. J., the Childs Boys, irked by eating in dirty hash-houses, decided to offer the public something cheap and clean. While public clamor for sanitary improvement was building up to the Pure Food & Drugs Act in 1906, Childs restaurants mushroomed, their slogan "The Nation's Host from Coast to Coast," their symbol...
Emergence of the soda fountain lunch in the 19203, a change in the public taste in decoration from sanitation to esthetics and (after Brother Samuel's death) Brother William 's espousal of vegetarianism put Childs on the skids. In 1929, after a grim fight for proxy control. Chairman Childs was forced out and General Counsel William A. Barber took his place. He and a new president, William Porter Allen, modernized both Childs restaurants and Childs food. White tiles yielded to Puritan, even to Moorish decorations with dance orchestras and goldfish ponds. Meat returned to the menu and instead...