Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...close-wooded hollows. The process of erosion has done well by the university, for Cornell's ravines are a joy to her poetasters, a convenience to her cavaliers, a laboratory for her scientists. The late longtime (since 1889) Trustee Henry Woodward Sackett, Manhattan lawyer, counsel for the New York Herald Tribune, loved well these natural wonders. Said he: "Since my first knowledge of Cornell University, I have regarded the beautiful deep ravines or gorges . . .'as among the choicest physical assets of the university. . . . Every one who matriculates . . . will carry through after days their memory and spiritual influence." During...
...Fourth largest of New York banks is Equitable Trust Co. with resources of $953,000,000. Last fortnight its president. Chellis A. Austin died (TIME, Dec. 23). Last week Lawyer Winthrop Williams Aldrich was elected to succeed him. A yacht-goer, Lawyer Aldrich is 44, also a director of Bankers Trust Co. While he has been legal advisor to Equitable for ten years, most famed of his legal activities was to handle John Davison Rockefeller Jr.'s ousting of Oilman Robert Wright Stewart from Standard Oil of Indiana. After his election, Mr. Aldrich frankly conceded he came to Equitable...
Merger. There is many a venerable bank which only after years of business considers a merger. But last week directors of Underwriters Trust Co. of New York, three weeks old, admitted they were already discussing a merger with the two-year-old Sixth Avenue Bank...
...Carnival, "A Night at St. Moritz," for the benefit of the New York Music Week Association at Madison Square Garden, Manhattan...
Conductor Willem Mengelberg of the New York Philharmonic welcomed Iturbi on his return to Manhattan. He gave him a birthday party, had a many-layered cake fashioned to represent a skyscraper. Iturbi, hugely pleased, cut it with a swoop while Pianist Ernest Schelling looked on with greedy eye. Iturbi sneaked his portion away, took it back to his hotel and sent it, adorned with two candles, to his twelve-year-old daughter in Paris. Soon afterward he appeared as Philharmonic Soloist under Mengelberg, won the acclaim of critics and public alike. Last week he gave a Manhattan recital solo...