Word: frankness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...white handkerchiefs, interrupted a dinner party long enough to obtain jewels valued at $400,000 from assembled socialites. Mrs. Philip Metz, daughter of Norman Edward Mack. New York's Democratic National Committeeman, lost $60,000 worth. Mrs. Raymond Allen Van Clief was bereft of a $200,000 pearl necklace. Frank Burkett Baird, builder of the Peace Bridge between Buffalo and Canada, uncle of one of the 100 guests, offered a reward of $5,000 each for the robbers alive, $10,000 each dead. His explanation: "If authorities are forced to resort to gunfire then the reward should be greater...
...Nominations were gravely made: Long Island's Ernest Milmore Stires, Washington's James Edward Freeman, Tennessee's Thomas Frank Gailor, South Dakota's Hugh Latimer Burleson, Chicago's Charles Palmerston Anderson. On the 16th ballot the secretary declared Chicago's Anderson had received the necessary 68 votes and two over. Ninety-three* Episcopal voices joined in a solemn doxology. Charles Palmerston Anderson, 65, was born in Kemptville, Ontario, did not move to the U. S. till 1891. In 1900 he was elected Bishop Coadjutor of Chicago and became Bishop of the diocese...
Suicides, long rumored, became facts, indicated some losers. Most prominent of suiciders was James J. Riordan, president of New York's County Trust Co. (TIME, Nov. 18). In Manhattan, George E. Cutler, wholesale produce merchant, jumped to death. In Philadelphia, Frank S. Palfrey and W. Paul Brown, brokers, shot themselves. In Chicago, Herman L. Felgenhauer, grain broker, took gas. A Rochester suicide was Robert M. Searle, president of Rochester Gas & Electric Co., who was supposed to have lost $1,200,000 in October. Once before he had lost $1,000,000, had gone to a sanitarium. In Scranton (Pa.), Carl...
...Simpson of Marshall Field & Co.; Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. Walgreen (drug stores); Harold Leonard Stuart (Halsey, Stuart & Co., brokers) and his socialite sister; Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick (daughter of Founder Rockefeller, onetime wife of Trustee Harold Fowler McCormick) and her bosom socialite friend Mrs. Waller Borden; onetime Governor & Mrs. Frank Orren Lowden; Senator & Mrs. Charles Samuel Deneen; Editorial Writer & Mrs. Tiffany Blake of the Tribune; Miss Caroline ("Madame X") Kirkland, society colyumist of the Tribune; and Artist Frederick Clay Bartlett and his socialite sister; Bishop & Mrs. Charles Palmerston Anderson (he is the new presiding officer of the Protestant Episcopal Church...
...advertising, but U. S. cigaret advertisers, remembering the famed Kansas anti-cigaret-advertisement statute, still unrepealed though not enforced, pricked up their ears, wondered if the Colorado crusade would spread. In marked contrast to the Christian Women of Colorado Springs is "a prominent New York society woman," a Mrs. Frank C. Henderson, who last week released pictures of herself smoking a pipe...