Word: gorham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Likewise on Fifth Avenue, and just one block from Black, Starr & Frost is the retail store of the Rhode Island silver-&-goldsmiths, Gorham Manufacturing Co. For almost a century Gorham silver and gold has furnished U. S. dining rooms, churches. Gorham bronze has gone into the careful details of U. S. buildings...
...honor who piqued their curiosity. He was, they understood, a financier whose unusual hobby is to acquire control of clean, smart, pedigreed industries. At present Mr. Aldred and his associates are the bankers for the firms which produce razors stamped "Gillette," silverware with the venerable Manhattan hall mark "Gorham," and U.S.-made motor cars bearing the nameplate "Rolls-Royce." Clearly this guest, this Signor John E. Aldred, was worthy of Italian observation. Especially so, because today the Manhattan financial house of J. E. Aldred is handling issues of dollar bonds totalling some $30,000,000, on the basis of which...
...Erechtheum" is edited by James Morton Paton '87, Gorham Phillips Stevens Hon, '22 has measured, drawn, restored the building. Lacey Davis Laskey and Harold North, Fowhem '80 contributed to the text...
...will be the subject of an address by John Havnes Holmes at the Community Church, Symphony Hall, tomorrow nothing at 10.45 o'clock. A musical program opening at 10.30 o'clock, will be given by J. H. Symonds, violinist, Gladys Berry, cellist, Mrs. Roland M. Baker, pianist, and Margaret Gorham Glaser, organist...
...made a great deal of money. He increased his regular income by bringing over shiploads of antiques and selling them among his friends. Most of his work was done in Manhattan where, with the help of Charles McKim, he built the Metropolitan and Century Clubs, the Tiffany and Gorham buildings, the Madison Square Presbyterian Church, the Library of Columbia University, and finally, the old Madison Square Garden (torn down last year). This bulking sultry building, with its hippodromes and galleries, tapering to Saint-Gaudens' winged Diana on its central citadel, had a roof garden with a cabaret show...