Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What is your personal position as to the merits of the bill?" Elmer opened his mouth, shut it, finally grinned. "I'm neutral." Next important witnesses were Salesman Herron, his Associated Gas & Electric Boss Edward J. O'Brien, and O'Brien's Boss Ursel E. Beach, head of Associated Gas & Electric Co.'s securities department. Typical excerpts from their testimony: Herron (admitting he had taken names from the city directory): "I was pretty well acquainted and knew pretty much who was for and who was against the Wheeler-Rayburn Bill." Senator Schwellenbach...
...severely frightened by a bolt of lightning which struck a nearby telegraph pole. RealtorJoseph P. Day, dressed in a bathing suit, handed out prizes. It was the Amateur Athletic Union National championship swimming meet for women. When it was over, after four days of splashing in & about a Manhattan Beach, N. Y. pool, that small, sunburned sorority of young women whose agile and sometimes ornamental torsos are perennial decorations for U. S. sports pages had several spectacular new members, a new list of champions: 100-metre free style .............Olive McKean 440-yd. free style .............Lenore Right 880-yd. free style...
...chat with William Randolph Hearst) and back to Washington via Pittsburgh. At the week's end he hopped to Manhattan. About once a fortnight he manages to week-end with his wife and as many of his nine children as he can collect-in the winter at Palm Beach, in the summer at Hyannis Port on Cape...
When, two days later, Peacock beat Owens again in a 100-metre invitation race at Crystal Beach, Ont., track experts found another alibi for Owens' defeat in the possibility that he was preoccupied. Fortnight ago he was reported engaged to one Quincella Nickerson of Los Angeles. Last week, the night before his second defeat by Peacock, Owens hurried to a preacher, married a Cleveland beauty-parlor maid named Minnie Ruth Solomon, entrained for Buffalo alone after promising to bring her a ring when he returned. His explanation of the Nickerson episode: "We were at a party and Miss Nickerson asked...
Fortune's wheel spins fast in the oil industry but never so dizzily as for Joshua S. Cosden. One turn lifted him from a small-town newspaper to a $50,000,000 Tulsa oil empire. Another landed him in Manhattan society with a $2,000,000 house in Palm Beach, a stud farm in Virginia and a show place on Long Island where he entertained Edward of Wales...