Word: hotelman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many a man has made friends with milkwagon horses between the hours of 3 a.m. and 6 a.m., but who would dally with such nags in broad daylight? John McEntee Bowman, potent hotelman, would and did. A year ago, he took Popover from between the shafts of a milkwagon and had him trained to jump fences. Last week, Popover won second prize in the open-to-all jumping class at the distinguished Westchester County Horse Show in Rye, N. Y. The Flirt was first...
...Reward. Not only did Captain Lindbergh win the $25,000 prize offered by Raymond Orteig, Manhattan hotelman, for the first New York-Paris non-stop flight, but he established for himself the immemorial right of extracting dollars from the hero-gaping U. S. public by appearing on the vaudeville stage, in the cinema, etc. A money-minded New York Herald Tribune writer figured out that Captain Lindbergh, as a professional hero, could (if he chose) earn $1,000,000 in one year in the following manner...
Raymond Orteig, Manhattan hotelman, donor of the $25 000 prize for the first non-stop flight between Paris and New York, offered a $5,000 reward to the aviator who should discover either Captain Nungesser or Captain Coli or traces of their White Bird. Soon followed the announcement by Rodman Wanamaker, Manhattan-Philadelphia department store owner, of a $25,000 reward to anyone who should find the two Frenchmen, dead or alive...
Raymond Orteig, Manhattan hotelman: "Home last week from France, where I had awaited the arrival of Pilot Rene Fonck and comrades in the ill-fated Sikorsky plane with which they had hoped to win my standing offer of $25,000 for a non-stop flight between New York and Paris (TIME, Aug. 23 et seq.), I revealed that one-legged Pilot Paul Tarascon* and one-eyed Pilot François Coli, Frenchmen, were all but ready to try for my money in a flight from Paris to New York, next fortnight. These two tried to fly over last year...
...first important announcement from Westbury was: another attempt at the flight, in another Sikorsky, by the Messrs. Fonck and Curtin, for Hotelman Raymond C. Orteig's $25,000 prize, yes; for the advancement of aviation and French American amity, by all means; but mostly, in memory of the charred sacrifices- Operator Clavier, Mechanic Islamoff...