Word: haled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Helen Manning Brown, great-great-granddaughter of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt; to Herbert Dudley Hale of Boston, grandson of the late Edward Everett Hale, author of The Man Without a Country, at St. James...
...lights went out at about 9 p. m. While many a tourist, not frightened by gun fire, shrieked with alarm at the innocuous darkness, Arab servants rushed about, knocking over tables, chairs, in a wild scramble for candles. Once light was restored, the panic guttered. Said one Harry Patterson Hale of Boston, tourist, to newsgatherers who boarded the California: "It was well worth the risk in going to Damascus, for the city was the most interesting* one that we visited on the cruise...
Gently boastful though these advertisements were, yet they revealed a quaint modesty. They might well have told of the eleventh Burlington-trained railroad president. He is Hale Holden, 57, president of the Burlington itself...
...William Hale Thompson, ex-mayor of Chicago, famed for his horn-blowing parties at Riverview (Chicago's Coney Island), told the U. S. to avoid "entangling alliances," explained how to use bunko parties to raise campaign money...
...with mighty names?" They couldn't find his history in Who's Who (it's not there yet). Good Chicagoans pointed with pride to him when he carried a Democrat, William E. Dever, into the City Hall in 1922 over the wreckage of the grimy William Hale Thompson machine. Mayor Dever's record is "Boss" Brennan's most flourishing gesture. But he insists that politics is merely his avocation, along with shooting canvasbacks and sitting in on jackpots: "For me, politics is a sideline, a recreation. I make my living in business and have...