14 items found relating to : Millionaires
| Titanic Stories | TITANIC PASSENGERS: THE MILLIONAIRES An elite class of millionaires find a new toy to amuse with the Titanic – a symbol of technological triumph.... |
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| irishtimes.com | HUMAN HEART OF A TRAGEDY HISTORY: FRANK McLYNN reviews Titanic Lives: Migrants, Millionaires, Conmen and Crew By Richard Davenport-Hines... |
14th January 2012 | |||
| New York Times | SAYS ISMAY TOOK FIRST BOAT Titanic Fireman Declares He Got in "with Millionaires" --- Harry Senior, a fireman on the Titanic, said last night: "I was in my bunk when I felt a bump. One man said. 'Hello, she has been struck.' I went... |
19th April 1912 | |||
| timeslive.co.za | AN EPIC LOVE STORY AND TITANIC RETOLD - TIMES LIVE An estimated 1 000 books have already been written on the liner and its fate. A lot more are coming. The challenge, therefore, for writers is to find a new way to tell the story. For Richard Davenport-Hines, whose just-published Titanic Lives: Migrants and Millionaires, Conmen and Crew (HarperPress) has drawn lavish praise from the critics, the answer lay not only in detailing the stories of the passengers - from the upper class toffs to the political, religious and economic refugees in third class - but also those of the men who built and owned the ship, and the crew who serviced her, thus presenting a more complete overview of Edwardian society.... |
9th January 2012 | |||
| Western People | AWFUL SHIPPING DISASTER. LOSS OF THE TITANIC WITH OVER 1200 SOULS The great White Star liner, Titanic, the largest ship in the world, which left Southampton on Friday of last week on her maiden trip to New York, collided with an iceberg off the Newfoundland coast on Tuesday last and sank in 1200 fathoms of water (o... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| Daily Sketch | TEDDY SMITH HERO: BOYHOOD RECOLLECTIONS OF THE TITANIC'S CAPTAIN A Genial Schoolfellow "Teddy Smith has gone down with his ship, and out of the six of us lads who used to be schoolmates together only one is now left - myself." From every corner of England, Mrs. Smith, the widow of the... |
25th April 1912 | |||
| Connaught Telegraph | WRECK OF THE TITANIC The White Star Liner, Titanic, which sailed from Southampton on Wednesday, after calling at Queenstown for passengers for New York, collided with an iceberg on Monday morning and was wrecked. She had 1,455 passengers and 903 of a crew, was on her ... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | MORGAN FORTUNE NEAR $100,000,000 Financier Not Possessed of Vast Wealth of Rockefeller or Carnegie --- PUT $60,000,000 IN ART --- Lewis Cass Ledyard, His Counsel, Believed to Have Possession of His Will --- Mr. Morgan, in Wall Street's estimation, wa... |
1st April 1913 | |||
| Evening World | TWO SURVIVORS CALL ON MAYOR TO ASK RELIEF Steerage Passenger and Sailor Referred to Red Cross Managers of Fund Two survivors of the Titanic called on Mayor Gaynor to-day. One is a sailor who was assigned to help man a lifeboat, the other a steerage passenger who, wearing a li... |
22nd April 1912 | |||
| The Charleroi Mail | MRS. HIRVONEN TELLS STORY OF HARROWING SCENES IN LATEST GREAT OCEAN DISASTER. SAW BIG STEAMER SINK Hundreds Leaped Into Water When Gigantic Steamer Went Down ---Says Ismay Was In Same Boat Shuddering as she recalled the awful scenes of Monday morning when the fated steamer Titanic sunk with over 1,700 person... |
23rd April 1912 | |||
| THE STRANGE MYSTERIES OF MOVIE MAKER WILLIAM HARBECK John Lamoreau William Harbeck was one of the very first moving picture film makers. In 1911 his film of southern Alaska became the center of a major story. American railroad tycoon J P Morgan and Meyer Guggenheim bought up claims for large tracts of land in Alaska... |
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| Chicago Inter Ocean | HUMAN BUZZARDS OF SEA SINK WITH TITANIC Special Dispatch to the Inter-Ocean New York, April 19.—Figures familiar to Forty-Second street will be missing in the cafes of the Great White Way when the lights are brightest as one of the results of the foundering o... |
20th April 1912 | |||
| Oak Leaves | MEETS CARPATHIA George P. Baldwin Relates Experience When Titanic Survivors Reach New York on Cunard Ship George P. Baldwin of 309 Linden, who went to New York to meet the survivors of the Titanic on the ... |
27th April 1912 | |||
| RADIO INTERVIEW WITH ALBERT HORSWILL ... |
10th May 1934 | ||||