Word: brownings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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James Roosevelt, Harvard junior, second son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt has been practicing football in the afternoons and stumping Massachusetts for the Brown Derby in the evening. The evening that his father accepted the Democratic nomination for Governor of New York, James Roosevelt was speaking on the Democratic side of a bi-partisan radio program. His partner was Miss Sarah Jackson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jackson, National Committeeman and Committeewoman of New Hampshire. Their opponents were Maxon H. Eddy, Yale football captain, and Miss Elizabeth Hughes, daughter of Charles Evans Hughes...
Niece Betty Rogers of Philippine Governor Henry Stimson (Republican) took time from her study of law at Yale to campaign?for the Brown Derby. Other famed Smith campaigners were Miss Sally Cabot of Boston and her cousin Maude Cabot of Manhattan. A reason for this Cabot support was seen in a campaign letter from Mrs. Constance Lodge Williams of Hamilton. Massachusetts. Supporting Senator David Walsh against his Republican adversary. B. Loring Young, she wrote...
...Brown and trim are the doorsteps of Albany's patrician houses. Brown and trim are the minds of the Dutchmen who live along State Street, Chestnut Street, Washington Avenue. They look back over 300 years of unbroken tradition to Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, first of the patroons to sail across the ocean and up the Hudson to the trading post of Fort Orange...
Albany's Dutchmen are leisured: they have no need of tabloids. They are retiring and shun society columns. Screaming headlines are monstrosities no less offensive than the maunderings of Dorothy Dix. Most newspapers would flutter uncomfortably on their trim, brown doorsteps...
...published it for the Clark family (Singer Sewing Machines) of Cooperstown. Young, rich Stephen Carlton Clark had married Susan Hun, descendant of brownest, trimmest Albany ancestors. Many a cousin, many an inlaw, would write indignantly to Owner Stephen when the Press, and later the News, failed to be brown and trim...