Word: towns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...City of New York pays its mayor $25,000 per annum-not much, considering the requirements of a sprightly person like Mayor Walker. In addition he gets a leather-lined Locomobile town car bearing the license plate Wi. Last week he ruminated more or less confidentially to a trusted group of newsmen to this effect...
Robert Tyre ("Bobby") Jones, golfer-lawyer, was last week admitted to the bar in Atlanta, his home town...
...outstanding difference between the Seville fair and other European expositions was instantly apparent to opening-day visitors. Instead of finding uncomfortable new buildings in an old and settled town, they discovered a great established park with comparatively old exposition buildings in a hastily modernized city. Seville's exposition has been 19 years in preparation, many times postponed. The main building was used as a hospital during the War. Trees have grown up; the buildings look settled. This winter, however, it was decided that the old crooked streets of Seville were not wide enough for the large expensive automobiles...
Carl Hamilton is one of the least publicized, most picturesque figures in Manhattan life. A laborer's son, he was born about 40 years ago in the mining town of Hollidaysburg, Pa. There were several other children. His zealous mother gave a biblical stamp to his mind which it still retains...
...brokers. These were last week about $1,500,000,000 than when the drive upon them Thus the drive obviously was fail Furthermore it was from the begin a lost cause. For almost the entire in loans to brokers came not from Manhattan banks, not from out-of-town but from private corporations. And, although the Federal Reserve could partially control the loans from banks, it could not at all control the loans from corporations. For the loans from corporations were not really credit, but capital-''capital saved by individuals and business firms, a wholly different matter...