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Married. Mina Miller Edison, 69, widow (second wife) of Thomas Alva Edison, daughter of the late Co-Founder Lewis Miller of the Chautauqua Institution (TIME, Jan. i. 1934); and Edward E. Hughes, 73, retired lawyer and steelmaker of Franklin, Pa.; in Chautauqua...
...West, made happy with big AAA checks, can be captured only by a strong Western farmers' candidate. Mr. Landon is certainly a Westerner. And while his not inconsiderable fortune has been made as an independent oil producer, he owns half interest in a 7,360-acre farm near Chautauqua. Governor Landon has other hallmarks of eligibility. After a series of ups & downs, he seems to have his state's G. O. P. well in hand. He has acquired a Colonel House, one Lacey Haynes, manager of the Kansas bureau of the Kansas City Star, who is political pals...
...times his whole family of four had to live on his $3.50 weekly wage. As he grew older Aubrey got other jobs, studied nights in a Y.M.C.A. He earned his way at Maryville College, Tenn. by painting signs and at University of Cincinnati by managing a Chautauqua. A post-War stay in France got him a doctor's degree at the University of Bordeaux. Not until he reached 30 was he ready to begin the career of social work in Ohio and Wisconsin which was eventually to make him the No. 2 U. S. Relief man. a tall, gentle, tweedy...
...Jamestown (pop. 45,155) would not permit same gracious enjoyment of unostentatious luxuries-would have to live in city or commute, and he hates both; might be expected to work Saturdays, and reserves Saturdays for domestic pleasures; several times the income that keeps a comfortable cabin cruiser on Lake Chautauqua wouldn't maintain a yacht on the Hudson; stable of fine saddle horses can be kept almost adjoining spacious colonial home in Jamestown, but not so in New York City...
...boyhood friend, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, plucked him from a prosperous but relatively obscure private & corporation practice in small Jamestown, N. Y. to be general counsel of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Shy, husky, genial, he likes to dance, ride over his farm near Jamestown, boat on Lake Chautauqua. To newshawks he protests: "I've never done anything. I'm just a country lawyer." But after two weeks of curt, pointed questioning and repartee in. Pittsburgh, observers were rating him an able opponent of Lawyer Hogan...