Word: dutchess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gannett, chubby, full-faced publisher cf the third largest chain of U. S. dailies,† last week bought his first magazine. It was The American Agriculturist, oldest (92 years) farm publication in the U. S. The seller was Henry Morgenthau Jr., Secretary of the Treasury and gentleman farmer in Dutchess County, N. Y. Secretary Morgenthau sold not because he had lost interest in a sheet he had issued twice a month from Poughkeepsie for the past twelve years but because an old Federal Law prohibits the Secretary of Treasury from holding a majority stock interest in any business. Publisher Gannett...
...Briarcliff Thickset, a sleek black Aberdeen Angus, was named grand champion steer. Oakleigh Thorne, gentleman farmer, was pleased as Punch. A retired capitalist, a onetime president of Manhattan's Corporation Trust Co., he had been raising cattle since 1918 when he bought a 4,000 acre farm in Dutchess County, N. Y. Eastern dairymen had pooh-poohed the idea of large-scale beef cattle raising in dairy-farming New York State. "This championship proves," said Prizewinner Thorne, "what I have been telling Eastern Farmers all along . . . that they can compete with other regions in beef cattle as well...
...this center of the wild and wooly west. And of course, dual personalities are always interesting. A far cry from the hustle and bustle of Michigan Avenue is a little town in merry England where Duchess Laura lives in her own quaint fashion. As conceived by Mrs. Bellor Loundes, Dutchess Laura -- Further Days of Iter Life (Longmans, Green, $2.00) is a real study of the nobler class...
...friends and all my neighbors of old Dutchess County! . . . It is, I think, just 23 years ago that I chanced to be in Poughkeepsie on a very hot Saturday morning in August. In front of the courthouse I ran across a group of friends of mine. . . . They kidnapped me-one of the first cases of deliberate kidnapping on record-and took me out to the policemen's picnic. On that joyous occasion of clams and sauerkraut and real beer I made my first speech and I have been apologizing for it ever since...
Thus did President Roosevelt address some 5,000 of his Dutchess County neighbors gathered on the Vassar College campus at Poughkeepsie last week. Stubbornly Republican, most of them had voted against him in the Presidential election. Now they more than made up for it by welcoming him home with warm enthusiasm, cheering him again & again. ¶Son Elliott, 22, joined the "Writing Roosevelts" last week when in Los Angeles he became aviation editor at $200 per week for William Randolph Hearst's Universal Service. No flyer, Hearstling Roosevelt has puttered around airplane engines, briefly managed a dinky air line...