Word: hammonds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More select was another political feast, given in Madrid last week by Mrs. Ogden Haggerty Hammond. Present were Her Majesty Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain and General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera...
...Ogden Haggerty Hammond has risen from small Hoboken real estate dealings to the position of a real estate tycoon and the rank of U. S. Ambassador to Spain. His first wife was of the most aristocratic section of Hoboken, famed Castle Point. The present Mrs. Ogden Haggerty Hammond of New York City and Ambassador Hammond tendered their luncheon to Royalty, last week, on the eve of returning to the U. S. for a short visit. They leave in charge of the Embassy in Madrid, quietly renowned Counselor Sheldon Whitehouse. He prepared for diplomacy as private secretary to the late Ambassador...
...durbars, a large and glittering ceremonial with Mr. Cantor at the comic centre of its parades. . . . The celebration earns the right to be called magnificent. ... He (Florenz Ziegfeld) employs the expensive Eddie Cantor . . . the prodigal Mr. Urban. ... He inspires the lazy silkworms to weave new and fabulous fabrics. . . ."-Percy Hammond in the Herald Tribune...
...thirds interest in the foreign market, he was comparatively alone. King Leopold II asked him for help in exploiting African diamond mines; and in rooms where chandeliers sparkled dimly like uncut diamonds, Thomas Fortune Ryan sat and talked with Harry Payne Whitney, Daniel Guggenheim and John Hays Hammond, persuading them to share this spectacular venture...
...dean of newspaper and magazine publishers. How long is their service to science and industry is indicated by the average of their ages-74. Younger are the two historic exponents of commercial aviation, youngest of great industries. Orville Wright, at 57, is seven years the senior of Glenn Hammond Curtiss. Charles Michael Schwab (Bethlehem Steel Co.) and Julius Rosenwald (Sears Roebuck & Co.) are 66. Tiremaker Harvey Samuel Firestone...