Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past five years, Father Divine, always well-heeled with the contributions he receives from the earnings of his followers, has bought $212,000 worth of property on the west bank of the Hudson, north of New York. The dusky messiah became a human spite fence last summer when Howland Spencer, socialite anti-New Dealer, sold Father Divine his-estate at Krum Elbow, across the river from the Roosevelts' Hyde Park. Last week, in a pet, an embattled woman of Newport, R. I. threatened a similar sale...
...equity in The Castle, which she said Mrs. Kaufman obtained in default of a loan, the Countess said she had filed a lien, which must be settled before the property can change hands. Declining to comment upon the lien, Mrs. Kaufman arose from her bed, journeyed to New York, spent an evening with Father Divine and his angels, declared afterward that she had conveyed her property to him. Father Divine announced he would take a boatload of his followers to Newport to inspect The Castle. Meantime he said the property would be held in escrow "until any little disturbances have...
...departed, an accountant testified that the A. F. A. benefits had profited its out-of-work members nothing, cited other figures in an attempt to show that its financial methods were careless. Two swimmers, a dancer and a show girl from Billy Rose's Aquacade at the New York World's Fair, which the A. F. A. had been supposed to organize, vowed that A. F. A. had double-crossed them in a tiff with Mr. Rose over salary and rehearsal...
...years the New York Stock Exchange has tried to put its best foot forward to the public. For six years the Exchange has wondered why its wooing has not produced a spark of reciprocal affection. Last week the Exchange hired Elmo Roper, chief researcher of FORTUNE'S famed polls of public opinion, for a special job: to find out what the middle and upper income people of the U. S. now think of the Exchange. Object: to improve its style of wooing...
...fair of fairs, the "World of Tomorrow." He talked about 40,000,000 customers and he figured on 60,000,000 (10,000,000 a month from May through October) to spend $56 apiece, bring a billion dollars worth of business to the Fair and New York City. Flamboyant Grover Whalen set the entrance fee at 75?. Last week he was learning something...