Word: leiter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whirlpool, in which handsome Edward Leiter represented a small town pastor's struggle against sex, capital and gossip, closed after three performances. It was earnest and trite. Most of its potential public were busy with Christmas shopping...
Ultrasmart among the Newcomers are: Mrs. Joseph Leiter. Vivacious, handsome, domineering, she gives fabulous parties in her enormous du Pont circle home in the manner but not the quality of the Astors...
...service) with Marshall Field & Co.; in Chicago. "Diamond Man" Devlin tutored famed London merchant Harry Gordon Selfridge in the rudiments of barter; once held Potter Palmer at the point of a gun, mistaking him for a burglar when he came to the store at midnight; helped Levi Zeigler Leiter carry out stock during the Chicago fire. Six other "Diamond Men" will be his pallbearers...
...last week abandoned, to be replaced by a $20,000,000 building on the same site. Centre of grain trading for 44 years, the old building has seen trading in eleven billion bushels of "cash" grain, amounting to 6,000,000 full freight cars. Here P. D. Armour, Joseph Leiter, James A. Patten and many another operator became famous. Here Arthur Cutten, prominent in Wall Street's late bull market, took the title of Corn King from J. Ogden Armour. Here "Old Hutch"-P. B. Hutchinson-ran the price of wheat from 89¾? a bushel to $2.00, then...
...Joseph Leiter, Chicago coal man, son of the late Levi Zeigler Leiter (onetime partner of Marshall Field), brother-in-law of the late Marquese Curzon of Kedleston, husband of Juliette Williams Leiter (famed Washington hostess). Reason: Prohibition...