Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three Harvard alumni, as well as three men from other institutions who are or will be studying in the Graduate Schools of the University, are numbered among the recipients of the fine arts scholarships awarded for the year 1929, 30 by the Carnage Corporation of New York City, it was announced yesterday...
...however, realize the historical significance of this ground, which hour by hour, week by week, is being scooped up in the huge jaws of the steam shovels, and carried away by a never ending stream of trucks. For some time the workers of the Hegeman, Harris Co., of New York, the contractors have put much effort into the task...
April 13--Columbia at New York...
Some years back, when George Leon Loft, son of George W. Loft, famed "penny-a-pound-profit" candyman, was a member of the New York Stock Exchange, he appeared on the trading floor in a smart new spring suit. Knowing his reputation for being ready to buy or sell anything, friends of Mr. Loft surrounded him and began to auction off the suit. When the price reached $100, George said "sold." Into a telephone booth he stepped, removed the suit, tossed it out to the purchaser, remained in seclusion until another suit was brought from his home...
...George Willets Davison was born at Rockville Center, Long Island, in 1872, graduated from Wesleyan (Phi' Beta Kappa) in 1892, received New York University LL. B. in 1894. In 1899 he was Queens County District Attorney; in 1900 served as secretary of a committee formed to revise the charter of Greater New York. He became Central Union's vice president at the time of the 1918 merger and in 1919 succeeded to the presidency upon the death of James N. Wallace...