Word: blenheim
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...executive committee when the convention only declared: "We stand for racial integrity and while official relations must be maintained, we deplore any social relationship between whites and blacks." Later, as the convention was going home, it was disturbed to hear that President Hoover had appointed as postmaster at Blenheim, Va., one Thornton Nightingale, Negro Republican...
...Wood Eaton, sleeping beside a little stream that winds in and out of coppices and fields; and going farther in this direction one comes to Islip, Noke, the grand sweep of Otmoor, and the leafy vale of the Thame. Going north from Oxford, one can visit Woodstock and stately Blenheim; or, if one is awed by this great place, one can turn a little to the west to the pretty villages and rich hills and vales watered by the Evenlode. Following the winding roads and hedges, now crossing streams, now going through woods, seeing here a country house, there...
...Duke of Marlborough, Baron Spencer, Baron Churchill, Earl of Sunderland, Earl of Marlborough, Marquis of Blandford, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, Prince of Mindelheim in Suabia, Knight of the Garter, descendant of "England's greatest general" John Churchill, First Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722), the victor of Blenheim...
Married. Elizabeth White, 35, daughter of Judge John J. White, president of the Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel Co. in Atlantic City, to Dr. Daniel J. McCarthy, 51, neurologist and alienist. The bride presented 700 hotel employes with $10 gold pieces, dined them...
...Duke of Marlborough?like the Dukes of Rutland and Buccleuch, the Marquess of Granby and Viscount Novar?transformed his estates into a "private, unlimited company" under the title "Blenheim Estate Co." The Duke will be the hereditary governing director with a controlling share of the stock. The other stockholder is Lord Ivor Spencer Churchill, the Duke's second son. The Duke, whose first wife was Consuelo Vanderbilt, and who is one of the wealthiest peers of the realm, took this step to escape the crushing taxation which is levied upon private fortunes. The capital of the Company is about...