All posts tagged "New York City"
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11.5KBusiness and LaborAlfred Winslow Jones, The Unlikely Inventor of the Hedge Fund
Alfred Winslow Jones had been a spy, a sociologist, a magazine writer and a Communist before he invented the modern hedge fund...
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6.4K1ConnecticutWhen Greenwich Kicked Out the United Nations
Peace after World War II was shattered in Greenwich, Conn., when a United Nations site committee started looking at land for its...
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10.7K1ConnecticutThe SS Lexington Disaster, Worst in Long Island Sound History
Cornelius Vanderbilt in 1834 commissioned a paddlewheel steamboat called the SS Lexington to be the fastest and most luxurious in operation. She...
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9.0K6Arts and LeisureGeorge M. Cohan Brings American Patriotism to Broadway
George M. Cohan wrote one of Broadway’s greatest hits in 1904 with Little Johnny Jones, featuring the song, I’m a Yankee Doodle...
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