Word: singer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...buildings, however tall, produced revenue; the stories above, however many, do well to pay taxes and interest on the investment. Early Manhattan skyscrapers-the first Equitable Building (seven stories, 1869, with its "vertical railroad"), the gold-domed Park Row Building, the 21-story Flatiron Building, the 41-story Singer Building (1907) and finally that 60-story marvel that dwarfed everything save the imagination of the man who thought of selling things for five and ten cents-all these paid for themselves in advertising value. For later imitations in prairie cities like Chicago and Detroit there was no equivalent economic excuse...
...estate and a fortune. He has built up whole streets at a time, including the tallest hotel in the world, the Book-Cadillac. The world's tallest structures include : Stories Feet Eiffel Tower 1000 Woolworth Bldg., N. Y. C 50 792 Metropolitan Life, N. Y. C 50 700 Singer Bldg., N. Y. C 41 612 Municipal Bldg., N. Y. C 24 580 Bankers Trust, (tallest bank) N. Y. C 39 539 Pure Oil Bldg., (formely "Jewelers Chicago Bldg.") Chicago 40 523 Straus Bldg., 32 475 Chicago Tribune Bldg 36 462 Wrigley Bldg., Chicago...
Married. Winnaretta Singer, daughter of Paris Singer, of Paris, niece of Washington Singer, Sheriff of Wiltshire, Eng., and of Sir Mortimer Singer, High Sheriff of Berkshire, Eng.; to Sir Reginald Arthur St. John Leeds, in London. She is granddaughter of Isaac Merritt Singer (1811-75), Oswego, N. Y., perfecter of sewing machines, founder of the New Jersey corporation which now internationally controls 80% of the world's output of sewing machines. Sir Mortimer, her uncle, balloonist and philanthropist, became a British subject in 1900, was knighted in 1920, for having donated a War hospital...
...protest the new censorship bill in a manifesto signed by such "advanced" writers as Georg Kaiser, Bernhard Kellerman, Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann. Inverse Income Tax. Signor Mattia Battistini, tolerably good Italian baritone, appealed to the tax collector of Duisburg (Rhineland) last week, to be classified as a "well-known singer," and deposed under oath: "My successful career as a singer has extended over 50 years...
Last week a picture was exhibited in Boston-"St. Martin and the Beggar" by El Greco. Carlos Meinhard of the Howard Young Galleries brought the picture to Boston; it had come to him from the collection of John Singer Sargent who owned it for 30 years, allowing it to be shown in public only once-at the exhibition of Spanish art in London in 1895. There is talk now that the Boston Museum of Fine Arts will buy it, give it a place beside two other El Grecos that hang there, "St. Dominic" and the Portrait of Fray Feliz Hortenzio...