Word: chateaugay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...home in Chateaugay, N. Y. (pop.: 1,100), Warren T. Thayer was amazed to find himself suddenly the object of large public interest. Day after the letters were published, the hearty old Republican was interviewed in his dingy office above a cigar store. "I had about 50 telephone calls last night but I couldn't make out exactly what it was all about," he chuckled. "If I wrote the letters, they certainly have slipped my mind.'' Asked if they might be forgeries, he declared: "Well, now, I don't think anybody would do a thing like...
...excelsior mill, a cold-storage plant and a road building firm, Senator Thayer maintains he is "just a simple farmer." But: "I did a lot of wandering when I was a young fellow." Shortly after the century's turn, he helped found a small local power company in Chateaugay. About 1925 he and his fellow Chateaugayans sold out to Associated Gas & Electric. "And here's the funny thing," he explained last week. "After we sold out . . . we found that the 20-year franchise had ended in 1923, and we had forgotten all about it, the way people...