Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oilman McDuffie left Royal Dutch-Shell. He and Jacques Vinmont (onetime Jacques Weinberger) of Blair & Co. formed Pacific Western Oil. Mr. McDuffie has a new home in San Marino (Pasadena suburb), plays strenuous tennis on his own court, uses no tobacco. His office is in the new black-&-gold Richfield Building which is crowned by a mighty air beacon. This building was erected by Clarence M. Fuller, spectacular marketer and advertiser whom Mr. McDuffie succeeded as Richfield president...
...chauffeur bundled Adolphus Busch Orthwein, 13, grandson of President August A. Busch of Anheuser-Busch, Inc., into a limousine and started for a family party at the grandfather's house. As the car neared the highway entrance to the Percy J. Orthwein estate at Huntleigh Village, St. Louis suburb, a Negro jumped out of the shrubbery, brandished a revolver, ousted the chauffeur. Negro, child and limousine disappeared in the distance. The chauffeur hurried back afoot to spread the alarm...
...month. Whiz Bang never carried advertising but by 1923 it was said to have reached a circulation of 425,000. It now claims about 150,000. Editorially, Whiz Bang was built around the rousing escapades and shady epigrams of the characters of "Whiz Bang Farm" (supposedly at Robbinsdale, suburb of Minneapolis): Gus, the hired man, Olaf, Deacon Callahan, his daughter Lizzie (whose virtue was always being designed upon) and Pedro, the Whiz Bang bull. (Rejection slips to authors explained that "Pedro, the Whiz Bang bull, didn't like this one.") It was and is a collection of frankly bawdy...
...late "Madame" Sarah J. Walker, St. Louis Negro washwoman who grew rich from sales of a straightener of kinky hair, built a $250,000 mansion in New York City's socialite suburb Irvington-on-Hudson and furnished it for $350,000. Last week "Madame" Walker's rich heir, Mrs. Lelia Walker Robinson, ordered the furnishings auctioned. Mrs. Mamie Pratt, friend of "Madame's," bought three black pillows for her Harlem undertaking establishment. A gold-leaf piano brought $450, a gold-leaf phonograph $45. Women fought for nicknacks. Total sales...
Tomorrow ten thousand men of Harvard will go to New Haven to learn that they are Harvard men. For one weekend Cambridge will be a suburb of Boston. In years past more than an aroma of tradition hung on this annual meeting between Harvard and Yale. This Saturday's game will be only a contest between two college teams so far as the world of sport is concerned...