Word: geneseo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Geneseo is a pretty little town in the lush Genesee Valley of western New York. Around it lie the broad acres of James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr., onetime (1925-27) U. S. Senator and now a Representative whose family in the old days could travel all the way to Rochester, 30 mi. north, without setting foot off its own land. Depression has dealt lightly with Geneseo's 2,260 inhabitants, who work on farms or in the cannery & jam factory, or teach in the State Normal School, and deposit their money in the Wadsworth bank. Thriving seat of Livingston County...
...When his party went into the minority, he was displaced by New York's Snell as leader. * Convicted of using the mails to defraud, the slickers were sentenced last week to seven and five years in Atlanta Penitentiary. * Last week "Hampton," the 100-year-old Wadsworth home at Geneseo, burned to the ground in its owner's absence. Loss...
...special suit of prison gray. His second wife, whom he had met when she came to get his Napoleonic story for a newspaper, left him, went to be a War nurse. After serving his ten-month sentence, Merchant Siegel married a third wife (the Western Union girl of Geneseo, N. Y. where his trial was held), obtained financial backing, made three heartbreaking attempts to come back. In 1922 he started his last venture, a small haberdashery store in Hackensack, N. J. Ill health prevented him from continuing it and he retired to Lakewood, the St. Helena of many an ailing...