Word: yellowness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago finance. One represents the Loop.* the other the North Shore; one represents a self-made generation, the other a second generation of inherited wealth and social prominence. Loop Team (Manhattan-Dearborn Corp.) John Daniel Hertz, Austrian born, "re tired" at 50, is the man who brought the Yellow Cab to Chicago and collected a fortune from its clicking meters. Once he wrote about sportsmen for the Chicago Record (extinct). Now he is himself a sportsman (chiefly horses) and winters in a cream-colored house on the Florida bank of the Atlantic Ocean. Albert Davis Lasker, chairman of Lord & Thomas...
Charles A. McCulloch is chairman of Parmalee Co., whose buses take trunks and travelers to and fro between Chicago's many railroad stations. He is largely interested in both the Chicago and New York Yellow Cabs. A onetime newsboy, he took part (in 1915) in an Old Newsboys' Day, stood on a corner with his newspapers, sold them out swiftly by the expedient of crying, falsely, facetiously, "Doubleuxtree! Charlie Ross is found!" There is a Loop story that when the late J. Ogden Armour was in a state of acute financial difficulty, Mr. McCulloch offered him a check...
Peaceful infiltration was a proper term for the appearance of those yellow signs?infiltration into territory peculiarly sa. cred to Standard Oil Co. of New York Socony's declaration of war last week seemed to end the peaceful period...
...great deal more to oil men than it did to the general public. All this year they have been watching New York and a large part of the East undergo a seachange. Across the landscape has been appearing a horde of mollusk shells, artistically represented in red and yellow, with the letters SHELL prominently inscribed upon them. Oil men know that the letters stand for Royal Dutch Shell, great Anglo-Dutch rival of Standard Oil, and for its U. S. subsidiaries-Shell Union and Shell Eastern Petroleum...
...cannonball express to hell. Sometimes local color dams up the story, but mostly, in spite of the temptation of spirituals, it is under control. Vidor's skill as a picturemaker is enough alone to make Hallelujah one of the best films of the year. Best actress : brown-yellow Nina Mae McKinney. not yet 18, who became a Manhattan chorus girl at 12, was picked by Vidor from the chorus of Blackbirds. Best tune: "The End of the Road" by Irving Berlin. Most dramatic sequence: Hot Shot (William Fountaine) running through the swamp when Preacher Zeke comes after...