REALTORS® met in the city's Armory on June 19 and were called to order by President Samuel S. Thorpe of Minneapolis. After an invocation and welcoming speeches, President Thorpe paused the proceedings "for a few minutes while we have this photograph taken."

From 1931 to 1954 one of the most popular radio programs in the country featured two storekeepers in the small town of Pine Ridge, Arkansas. The pair kept Americans laughing despite hard times that included the Great Depression and Second World War.

On May 24, 1939, in cooperation with the National Association of Real Estate Boards, they devoted part of their show to "what things make for safety when a family goes into home ownership today and some of the things the family should look for when it is choosing a homesite or a home," according to the association's press release.

In January 1940 a blizzard hit the Colorado Springs area, keeping some REALTORS® away from NAREB's South Central Regional Conference. Attendance was still good with 361 paid registrations. Traveling by train the St. Louis delegation numbered the largest at 57, including four spouses.

When he became owner of Mount Vernon at age 21 the estate comprised 2,700 acres. At the time of his death Washington's holdings exceeded 63,000 acres in seven states.

Corinne Griffith was certainly the most glamorous speaker at the convention. She made sixty pictures, retiring as an actress in 1932. Her performance in the silent film "The Divine Lady" earned a 1929 Academy Award nomination.

Tensions were running high that year. In June North Korean forces attacked South Korean and American troops, beginning a war that would involve the Chinese in less than a month. A year earlier the Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb.

Local historian Roy W. Nagle had long known the popular centenarian. Parke “has had some major part in every forward-going movement in this community,” Nagle said. He also “led in promoting and guiding industrial real estate activities for the betterment of Buffalo.”

At NAREB's Twentieth Annual Convention in 1927 she had the distinction of addressing the delegates in Seattle. Perego stressed that women were not limited to success in residential real estate. "It is true that many women make their start in the real estate business selling homes because they seem naturally adapted to this line," she said, but added "the only continue in this field until they 'find' themselves and develop a broader knowledge of real estate, then they invade any branch they choose."

The first full-time staff hired by the National Association of Real Estate Boards, Tom Ingersoll served as Secretary (Executive Vice President today) from 1911 to 1922. Also referred to as “The most popular man in Realtydom,” everybody associated with the organization knew who Tom was.

It didn’t take him long to win over REALTORS®. Historian Pearl Janet Davies wrote of the 1913 Winnipeg Convention when “Ingersoll was carried around the hall on the shoulders of delegates. (He) had already become ‘dear old Tom.’” At that meeting the National Association's president, Alexander Taylor, praised the hard-working secretary: “We have a man in this organization…whose heart throbs and beats with the work we are doing; who is giving his life, his fidelity, and his strength to the building of this organization. In referring to that man I do not believe I am obliged to use his name. You all know him (cries of ‘Ingersoll’).”