Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...facts as these: the largest divinity school (298 students) in the U. S. is in Chicago; Hunter College (Manhattan) is the largest women's college (4,918 students); the largest liberal arts college is the University of California (9,783 students); the largest law school is at New York University (1,785 students) ; Pennsylvania has the largest dental school (430 students); University...
...would be the greatest real estate dicker in the history of New York, since Peter Minuit in 1626 bought Manhattan Island...
...Oscar was on the staff when New York's most famed hostelry opened...
...regrets that troubled the soul of Oscar, however, never, entered into the discussions of a group of men who gathered in a downtown bank in New York and spent the day deliberating. They were realtors, and they talked of leases and rents, and how many stories an office building must rise in order to yield income proportionate to the value of a property in terms of Fifth Avenue frontage. In the end, they nodded in agreement on a real estate dicker which will wipe out the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, a famed Manhattan landmark, a tradition of princesses and kings, Peacock...
...late George C. Boldt, previously manager of a hotel in Philadelphia, was brought to New York to operate the Waldorf and became the genius of its expansion. He induced John Jacob Astor, whose home was adjacent, at 34th Street & Fifth Avenue to build the twin half of the hotel; and this was opened...