Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vincent Astor organized a Women's Committee, opened her exclusive home for business meetings, goes each day to check on returns at campaign headquarters. Radio appeals have been made by New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, a longtime Philharmonic subscriber, by Mr. Flagler, Mrs. Astor, Mrs. Christian R. Holmes, Geraldine Farrar, Deems Taylor, Norman H. Davis. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, speaking from the White House five Sundays ago, said: "In helping to preserve the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra you will help preserve a sense of values, a spiritual outlook, a feeling for the good and the beautiful which...
...apart by a line squall as the Shenandoah was nine years ago or come to a catastrophic end in the sea as the Akron did last year, the officer who on the basis of past performance will have the best chance of survival is round-faced Lieut. Commander Herbert Vincent ("Doc") Wiley. "Doc" Wiley was aboard the Shenandoah when it broke over Ohio. "Doc" Wiley was aboard the Akron when it crashed off the New Jersey coast, the only officer to escape...
...drive on fire traps, Commissioner Post recently swore he would compel all landlords, many of whom cannot pay taxes, to make their properties safe and sanitary. Vincent Astor countered with an offer to sell his slum holdings for their assessed value ($800,000). Other large slum owners like the Stuyvesants. Folsams and Columbia University chimed in with offers to cooperate. But for true low-cost housing even the assessed valuation is too high. Everybody wants slum-clearance including the landlords and the mortgage holders. But the landlords and the mortgage holders want their money first. A recent Manhattan Tenement House...
...location in Quincy Square, opposite the Union, where the concrete garage was built in 1906. In these pioneer days Ramblers and Stanley Steamers were sold. In the main, however, they devoted themselves to storage and repairing of all makes of cars. Among their earliest Harvard customers were Professor Kennedy, Vincent Astor, Robert Goelet, the Cudahy Brothers, Morgan Belmont, Frederick Prince, the Iselens, and Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. In 1913, the Ford Motor Company, who up to this time had not built either the Cambridge or Somerville assembly plants, rented space for thirty-five cars, and made Mr. William E. Furniss...
Thomas Hall Scholarship, founded in 1912 by Mrs. Thomas Hall awarded after mid-years to a Freshman, was divided between Fred Leroy Chase, Jr., of Dedham, and Vincent John Rossi, of Utica, New York...