Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beach of Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams' Cohasset, Mass. estate, Coast Guardsmen last week surprised rum-runners landing 600 cases of liquor worth $150,000. Some of the smugglers escaped into the surrounding marshes, some made out to sea in a swift, silent electric launch...
Married. James Middleton Cox Jr., son of the threetime Governor of Ohio and 1920 Democratic presidential candidate; and Helen Rumsey, of St. Louis and Miami Beach, Fla; in Manhattan...
...Democratic State, it will have to be a dry State. I suggest my home be bought for retired Senators and Governors to be used two years from now." Twitted about Florida's notorious Wetness, she added: "Its strong State law is remarkably effective. . . . The drinking in Miami and Palm Beach is perpetrated by privileged people from the North...
Cosden Receivership. In 1925 the most typical example of the oilman whose wells had gushed richly was Joshua S. Cosden, head of Cosden & Co. He had vast estates in Palm Beach and Long Island, entertained lavishly, followed horses as well as stocks. His wealth was estimated at $50,000,000. Surely his expenditures lent veracity to this figure. But after heavy losses in the stockmarket he lost control of Cosden & Co. which became Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp., was reported financially down & out. Three years later his friends financed a projected comeback. He moved from Manhattan to Fort Worth, energetically entered...
...Silver Horde (RKO). They are still making films out of Rex Beach's stories. This one, like the rest, is complicated, violent, highly naive: the nobility of the hero is 100% and so is the villainy of the villains. The theme of the picture is the struggle of opposing interests for control of the Yukon salmon fisheries. It contains a few great sequences: the beautiful silver hordes of fish whirling down the river and lifted, struggling, into the fishing boats out of the heavy nets...