Word: speyers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inclination for hunting. Because they consider that the dog has been deprived of his natural occupation, anti-city dog leaguers regularly raise a cry of cruelty. But in a new book on bringing up dogs,* Dr. James R. Kinney, chief veterinarian of Manhattan's famed Ellin Prince Speyer Hospital for Animals, burst their argument's bubble. He pointed out that dogs have become the most domesticated and civilized of animals; that unless man teaches them the tricks they seldom revert to their ancient habits in the country or out; that since dogs receive better care and more attention...
Another international banker is James Speyer, who has as broad a German accent as though he had just arrived from Frankfurt-am-Main, where Speyers have been bankers since the 18th Century. Actually he was born in Manhattan. His interest in Manhattan history is institutionalized in the Museum of the City of New York, to which he gave $450,000. John D. Rockefeller Jr. gave the same. Persistent at the time was a story that Mr. Rockefeller wanted to give more but Mr. Speyer preferred that no gift be bigger than his. Speyer & Co. rarely has taken part...
...Speyer & Co. was founded in Manhattan in 1837. Its reputation grew as it sold U. S. securities in Germany during the Civil War, as it handled railroad reorganizations, as it floated the first loan to-Cuba. In 1885, James Speyer, after being bound apprentice to the family firms in Paris, London, Frankfurt, went to the U. S. firm. For at least the past 30 years he has run it in an arbitrary, single-minded fashion. He floated a vast amount of foreign loans, financed railroads, built power plants in Manila and a railroad in Bolivia. But the War upset...
...Hollingworth picked her 50 prodigious children last year from more than 600 applicants for the Speyer School. Their I.Q.s were from 130 to 200, the highest recorded rating, indicating potential genius. Chosen from regular New York City classrooms, they came from homes in all economic levels. Nor were they racially or nationally homogeneous. There were two Negro girls from Jamaica and a Negro boy from Haiti...
...Speyer group, aged 7 to 9 and taken from grades 1A to 6B, has worked well together. The children come to school in a building on Columbia's Morningside Heights from all parts of the city, eat lunch together. Even 8-year-olds travel alone on the subway between home and school...