Word: bartow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Eppes Bartow Hawes, daughter of Senator Harry Bartow Hawes of Missouri (see p. 60); and Lewis Thompson Preston, Manhattan socialite; in Washington. A special train took the bridegroom from Manhattan to Washington; eight limousines decorated with his racing colors met him & his friends at the station. The special train later took bride, bridegroom and a jazzband to Manhattan, whence they sailed for a big-game-hunting honeymoon in Africa...
Engaged. Eppes Bartow Hawes, daughter of Senator Harry Bartow Hawes of Missouri; and Lewis Thompson Preston, Manhattan socialite...
...Jefferson City, Mo., Harry Bartow Hawes, U. S. Senator from Missouri, told the Democratic state convention this week that he was going to retire from politics to become president of the More Game Birds for America Commission, a new foundation sponsored by Joseph Palmer Knapp, chairman of the finance committee of Crowell Publishing Co. and Thomas William Lamont, banker. Joseph Knapp, although he was once arrested for shooting too many ducks on his island in North Carolina, has long regretted the fact that U. S. birds are disappearing. Last spring, Mr. Knapp read a book on black bass written...
...leave another automobile for his use. When he was through for the day, Senator Oddie went to the Capitol Plaza, picked out a shiny new Packard sedan, drove home in it. Next morning at breakfast he read in the newspaper that the automobile of his Democratic adversary, Senator Harry Bartow Hawes of Missouri, was being searched for by the police. That, thought Senator Oddie, was too bad. When he went to get his borrowed car to drive to work again, Senator Oddie noticed the car bore Missouri license plates. That, thought Senator Oddie, was most embarrassing. He sped...
Never point a gun at anyone unless you want to kill hun. "Unloaded" guns are always the ones that go off.-U. S. Folklore. In Washington, three weeks ago, Senator Harry Bartow Hawes of Missouri presented Speaker Nicholas Longworth with a revolver. It had once belonged to Bandit Jesse James and Speaker Longworth amused himself by pointing it at a newspaper photographer who took his picture. In Bay City, Mich., small Nathaniel Conklin saw the picture, showed it to his sister Dorothy, said. "I can do that too. Wait, I'll show you." Nathaniel Conklin then ran upstairs...