Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty-five years ago Louis Eckstein, rich Chicago merchant and real estate operator, began sponsoring summer orchestra concerts at Ravinia Park, 37 acres of woods he owned on suburban Chicago's North Shore. Later, not instruments but voices made Ravinia famed. The Ravinia Opera which Louis Eckstein produced, signing up the best artists, casting them, supervising every production detail, cost him some $1,500,000 before Depression halted it four years ago (TIME, April 11, 1932). Patron Eckstein, who kept hoping to revive Ravinia, died last winter. Last week there was orchestra music once more in the open-sided...
Five years ago Paul Bonynge, New York lawyer, first cousin of onetime Congressman Robert William Bonynge from Colorado, ran for the post of county judge in Long Island's suburban Nassau County. Suave, patrician Paul Bonynge candidly told his constituents even in those Prohibition days that now and then, when he wanted a drink, he took it. He was beaten. Campaigning again on a platform "never to put a man in jail for things I do myself," he was elected in 1932 a justice of New York's Supreme Court (equivalent to a superior court of original jurisdiction...
...steadily expanded from 21 bureaus serving 267 clients, to 104 serving more than 1,350. Although it was never possible for both of them to get away from the job for much fun together, the team of Hawkins & Howard was inseparable at work. They bought neighboring houses at suburban Pelham, each put a son in the business.* When Howard went over to manage the Scripps papers in 1921, Hawkins succeeded logically to the UP presidency. It was not much more than two years before speedy Pitcher Howard was calling for Shortstop Hawkins, who became vice chairman & general executive manager...
After years of complaints from residents of Mt. Kisco, Katonah and Bedford Hills, N. Y., President Frederick Ely Williamson of New York Central Railroad, which runs through these swank suburban towns, last week visited them, listened carefully, agreed to put whistles on his trains which will emit a soothing "Beep" instead of a shrill "Toot...
...Benson got his start in his father's real estate firm, shifted to American Can Co., later went into roofing. A broker since 1910, he became senior partner of F. M. Zeiler & Co. in 1923. Handsome, humorous, immaculately dressed, "Brick" Benson likes to fish, play golf, lives in suburban Winnetka. Asked about the outlook for U. S. securities, Broker Benson declared: "In spite of all talk about inflation and so forth, there is no place in the world where money is as safe as it is here...