Word: covely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...illustrate how it becomes inoperative I will cite how about 60 voters here at Deer Harbor lost their chance to vote this last election. They had a chartered boat laying here at Deer Harbor ready to take them to a voting place at Elfin Cove on Icy Strait, but on election day the Gulf of Alaska was in an angry mood-it may have been a grudge against the New Deal-and no boat could cross...
Refused by Honolulu's Harbor Board was the request of Doris Duke Cromwell, "Richest Girl in the U. S.," to bulkhead a Kaalawai Beach cove into a private swimming pool near her proposed $500,000 home. Declared the Board: "This question of great wealth being used for private ends is contrary to the public good." Annoyed, Mrs. Cromwell threatened to abandon her Hawaiian property, build her home near Palm Beach, Fla., instead...
...Glen Cove last week arrived Grain Broker Herbert L. Bodman on his yacht. He was returning from a three-week, six-horse cavalcade on which, followed by chauffeur & groom with Ford trailer containing stove, icebox and 200-lb. of oats, Broker Bodman, his wife, their son & daughter and two friends had ridden horseback 360 miles to Rutland...
...Hopkins, for Secret Service and wireless men; the Presidential yacht Potomac, for secretaries, emergencies and fishing jaunts; the schooner Liberty, for newshawks. First day's run brought the President to Bucks Harbor, off South Brooksville, Me. Next noon he put in at Mount Desert Island's Seal Cove for a visit from Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, wife, son and three daughters. Dressed in old pants, blue sweater and floppy white hat, Franklin Roosevelt received them with a day's growth of stubble on his chin, kept the Admiral for lunch. That afternoon he played his favorite...
...time the world had learned these facts, Patient Morgan, Dr. Denny and party had traveled through Boston and Manhattan and were approaching the Mill Neck, L. I. station about four miles from the Morgan estate at Glen Cove. Mr. Morgan was looking out the window when his train rolled to a halt. Gawpers rushed up to peer in at him. Mr. Morgan pulled down the shade...