Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prospect Harbor...
...Anderson went among his rich socialite friends at Palm Beach and Bar Harbor and discovered the existence of a Research Investigation Committee. Members include John D. Rockefeller's granddaughter, Mrs. Elisha Dyer Hubbard, and Consuelo Vanderbilt's father-in-law, Sydney J. Smith. They helped to fill editorial wastebaskets with querulous complaints about Dr. Koch's "persecutions...
Last summer at Bar Harbor, Mr. Anderson began writing letters to editors and to such wealthy, influential individuals as George Woodward Wickersham, George Wharton Pepper, Harry Harkness Flagler, Bishops William Thomas Manning and Ernest Milore Stires. To Mr. Flagler. he wrote: "Dr. Hartwell has promised us one thousand cases of cancer to be placed in various hospitals. In addition to this we are almost certain of the support of one of the foundations. All I can do is to sing 'Glory on the Glory Road...
...rest of the country and called the Middle West a parasite fattening itself from New England. Kaufman, the last speaker, begged the audience to pity New England if she secedes, since she cannot be self-sufficient. He closed his speech by painting a picture of rats emerging from Boston Harbor, surmounting the City Hall, and finally "perishing from starvation after they had consumed the rotting corpses in the moss-covered streets...
...most distinguished members, Charles Dana Gibson. On the walls of its uptown Manhattan headquarters hung the largest exhibition he has ever given, 162 drawings and paintings dating from an anti-Tammany cartoon of 1888 to a stack of flashily painted portrait sketches and landscapes done this summer at Dark Harbor, Maine...