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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This fabulous performance prompted even his bitter enemy, Hearst's Chicago Herald & Examiner, to recite the story of how "Ed" Kelly, son of Fireman "Steve" Kelly, was born blind; how he gained his sight at the age of 18 months when his mother washed his eyes with her own milk; how he became a newsboy at 9, an office boy at 12, a day laborer at 17. The New York Times, a thousand miles away, was prompted to print such a eulogy as it seldom accords even a great statesman. And Franklin Roosevelt, landing in Florida, was prompted...
...Greene, who was born in Yokohama, Japan, is an outstanding authority on American-Japanese relations. He has been associated with many organizations fostering international relations with the Japanese and has been president of both the Japan Society and the American Asiatic Association...
...Aintree, two horses came to the last fence together, Thomond II got over first but faltered as he landed. Reynoldstown cleared neatly. In that moment, the result of the Grand National was decided. The Whitney horse, a flat racer trained to jump but lacking the stamina of a born steeplechaser, slowed down so badly that Lady Lindsay's Blue Prince, at 40-to-1. passed him in the stretch and took second place by three lengths...
...member picked by the nominating committee. Probably without the slightest intention he thus put President Whitney in the position of being a "bolter." Tall, thickset, bespectacled Broker Gay has a background as different from Broker Whitney's as Manhattan is from Brooklyn, where Mr. Gay was born and still lives. ("Although," he says, "some people can't understand why.") Long before Mr. Whitney was ready for Groton, Mr. Gay was clerking in a drygoods house. Later he went into insurance, then coal, finally banking. He bought his seat on the Exchange in 1911. Today Mr. Whitney likes...
...take a day in bed with an incipient cold, it is a great relief. "Nothing to do for a whole day-not to have to cope! I am able to cope, and one has to in this country; but I get tired of it, sometimes. I am not a born coper, like Evangeline; I have had to learn to do it." Only too often she has to ring the buzzer for Mrs. Gonzales or send for Max; it is very wearing. Once they came and told her that Kitty was acting very funny. " 'Oh, where?' I asked plaintively...