Word: gores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white children. A few months later Elmer Thomas hung his shingle over the doorway of a frame house in the frontier town of Lawton. Across the street hung the shingle of a young, blind lawyer who had not yet developed his resonant chime-like voice-Thomas Pryor Gore. Frequent court opponents, they were friends, and both had their shoes shined by a newsboy named Riley. In that frontier world all things were possible, for today Thomas and Gore* represent the sovereign State of Oklahoma in the U. S. Senate, and Fletcher Settle Riley is Chief Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme...
Elmer Thomas did not reach the U. S. Senate till 20 years after Gore had first arrived there. By his law practice and shrewd investments he had built himself an independent fortune. One of his shrewd investments was Medicine Park, created when he decided that Oklahoma needed a summer resort. He began in 1910 to build log cabins, fish ponds, and other attractions on certain land he owned. He lived there in the Park Lodge till he built himself a house (out of boulders) across from his swimming pool. The War boosted Medicine Park which was the nearest amusement place...
...Senator Gore's son-in-law, Eugene Luther Vidal, is Federal Director of Aeronautics...
...Gordon Chase Streeter 210 *Henry Charles Thacher 175 George Huntington Damon 167 Cyrus Leo Sulzberger 152 Richard Lawrence Stites 142 Robert Blaine Murray, Jr. 132 Daniel Wortham Litscher 110 CLASS DAY COMMITTEE *David Bradley Cheek 251 *Paul deBarsy deGive 242 *Frederick Greeley Crocker 218 *Warren Albert Casey 196 *George Gore 195 *Eddy James Rogers 195 *David Eli Kopans 194 Robert Satterlee Hurlbut 191 James Mansfield Estabrook 182 Robert Breckinridge 156 Edward Esty Stowell 154 Kent Sanger 133 John Joseph Hayes, Jr. 111 John Thomas Higgins 107 Harold Frankel 91 *Elected
...also fly, and their eight-year-old son Eugene Jr. often accompany him. Flying is only one accomplishment of attractive Mrs. Vidal. She has played bits on stage and screen, once wrote Washington chit-chat for Hearst's Universal Service. The Vidals live with Senator & Mrs. Gore in the Gores' spacious house near Washington's Rock Creek Park...