Word: arlington
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marshall Field & Co.'s yellow-haired, young-looking board chairman. He married Alicia Patterson, daughter of the publisher of the New York Daily News, at the age of 22. In 1928, a year later, they separated, were divorced last year. He continued steeplechasing, flying, helped develop swanky Arlington Park Race track, interests with which he did not allow his connection with the Merchandise Mart (Marshall Field's wholesale branch) gravely to interfere. Last winter, aged 26, he took to wife Ella de Treville Snelling of the Boston Snellings, a smart horsewoman and fancy ice-skater. She made...
...turnout of 50 men attended the opening meeting of the Harvard Rifle Club, it was announced by David Weld '34. With this large number of new members it is planned to make daily trips to the Arlington Rifle Range, Saturday afternoons and Sundays excepted...
...present it is purposed to make use of the Arlington Rifle Club as usual, but there is a possibility that, if favorable arrangements can be made, one of the larger ranges may be employed instead. Over 2000 rounds of ammunition have been discovered left over from last year, an amount which should suffice until more can be procured from the government...
Everyone was shown into the intimate Lincoln Study, second floor back, whence Father Abraham, in his crisis, watched the enemy flag fluttering across the Potomac at Arlington Heights. Flanked by the Three M's?Governor Eugene Meyer Jr. of the Federal Reserve Board, who was director of War Finance Corp. and to whom hurried calls to the White House were not new, and Secretary Mellon and Undersecretary Mills?President Hoover sat at a small desk. In front of him were 36 comfortable chairs. In the chairs were seated his "little Congress," actually a coalition caucus, since those members...
...Author. Edwin Arlington Robinson, 61, foremost if not greatest U. S. Poet (he has thrice won the Pulitzer Prize), is, almost alone among his colleagues, an almost mysterious figure. His hatred of publicity has never drawn him into the limelight. A Maine boy, a Harvardman, he winters in Boston and Manhattan, summers at artistic MacDowell Colony, Peterboro, N. H., does much of his writing there. Poverty once drove him to take a job as dump cart inspector on a subway construction. When Theodore Roosevelt was President he read and liked Robinson's poetry, offered him a consulship in Mexico...