Word: harold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Navy as he had honored the Army the day before, touring Pearl Harbor Naval Base, lunching with Rear Admiral Harry E. Yarnell. Afterward he took time off for his one private engagement, tea with Mr. and Mrs. Walter F. Dillingham. Good Harvard man is Mr. Dillingham. whose Brother Harold is a classmate of Franklin Roosevelt's (1904). But in Hawaii the Dillinghams are better known as the island's railroad tycoons. That night the President took dinner quietly in his hotel with a few guests, including Will Rogers. At 9 p.m., still smiling, he appeared once more...
...days later, Lott & Stoefen had more trouble than they expected beating Harold George Newcombe Lee and George Patrick Hughes, 7-5, 6-0, 4-6, 9-7. The forlorn chance that the U. S. might repeat its performance of the week before disappeared next day when Perry beat Shields, 6-4, 4-6, 6-2, 15-13. In the last match of the series Austin beat Wood...
...Pierce Adams ("F. P. A."), Heywood Broun and Alexander Woollcott, who lunched together daily at the Algonquin Hotel. With them at the green baize table were two characters who did not fit into the regular membership. One was a nervous, profane, broom-thatched wild man from the West named Harold Ross. Born in Aspen, Colo., he had been a waterfront reporter in San Francisco, a picture-snatching newshawk in Atlanta, boss of a Negro gang in Panama and, most important, editor of the A. E. F.'s Stars & Stripes. The other was a suave, good-humored millionaire named Raoul Fleischmann...
...Manner in 1923. First across the line was Vileehi, in 13 days, 3 hr. She was followed by Manuiwa, Burrapeg, Fandango, Monsoon, Altair and Dolphin. After four days, when the handicaps of all other possible winners had expired, officials of the Trans-Pacific Yacht Club announced the winner: Harold Dillingham's Manuiwa. William Candy's Burrapeg was second...
...Hawaii, the name of Dillingham is to Dole as the name of Whitney is to Rockefeller in the U. S. Harold Dillingham, whose big house stands on Diamond Head Drive above the finish line of last week's race, has island interests in sugar. fruit, shipping and railroads as well as yachting. His brother Walter is a sugar and utilities tycoon as well as a crack polo player...