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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reaches here at 7:30 p. m. My wife was in the other room, but when your speaker reached that incident of the broadcast, his hushed voice drew Mrs. Hinman to the radio, and I heard a sob. Mrs. Hinman was born in Yorkshire, England. I was born, and, for more than forty years, lived under the British flag, and we felt we had lost a friend...
...That's fine. That's very fine." On the rare occasions when newshawks sought out Mrs. Long during her hus band's turbulent lifetime, she liked to say that she was "just a nice Irish girl named Rose McConnell" when the future Kingfish met & married her. Born on a farm near Greensburg, Ind., she was taken by her parents to Louisiana at 10. Though Huey Long recorded in his autobiography that he met Rose McConnell while attending school at Shreveport and married her a year later at 19, the tale is firmly imbedded in U. S. legend...
...bill but not new taxes-only substitute taxes-to pay for substitute AAA, that the question of taxes to pay the Bonus was still under study. Not a little disgusted was Chairman Doughton of the Ways & Means Committee, where all tax bills are supposed to be born. Said this aged North Carolina Democrat: "It seems strange the President does not tell us before he tells the Press. . . . It would be better to postpone a tax bill to next year if they can wait that long. . . . We can do better when our minds are not occupied with something else." No move...
...collector was ever more beloved by the U. S. art world than Thomas Benedict Clarke. Born in Manhattan in 1848, he was the son of Dr. George W. Clarke, founder and longtime head master of the old Mount Washington Collegiate Institute, one of the best-known private schools in the East in the years following the Civil War. Young Tom Clarke went into the linen business. His real life, though, was spent buying & selling pictures and furniture. He started the nucleus of his great collection of U. S. portraits in 1872. In 1899, dissatisfied with what he had bought...
Albert D. ("Dolly") Stark was born on Manhattan's lower East Side, son of a second-hand clothes dealer who never had enough spare stock to supply his son with a coat to match his trousers. Small Stark envied the boy who lived across the street, whose name was Walter Winchell, and who owned a Buster Brown suit of blue serge. When he grew up Dolly Stark became a professional baseball player. He gave it up in 1921, went to Dartmouth as basketball coach three years later, kept up his interest in baseball by umpiring summers...