Word: hoffmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fingerbowls, Flemish oak chests, potted palms, tooled leather wastebaskets and bronze andirons, they saw enough to stock all the dealers in Manhattan. Of the great art which legend maintained was "Inisfada's" glory, they saw little. Artistically respectable by most current standards was the garden-sculpture of Malvina Hoffman, auctioned off in situ among the rose bushes. For the rest, it appeared that the Bradys, in their assiduous years of collecting, had amassed a store of art faintly reminiscent of the collection owned by Major Edward Bowes...
...Trenton, muscular Governor Harold Giles Hoffman, who had sworn to resist the Sit-Down with "the full resources of the State," leaped to the rescue of Thermoid's involuntary sitters, had State troopers convoy a truckload of food and bedding to them. When the sheriff declared himself unable to enforce a court decree ordering the strikers to stop interfering with the company's operations, Governor Hoffman dispatched 30 blue-clad State troopers to stand guard...
...Bernarr Macfadden's 5? weekly Liberty magazine, popped into the spotlight with a $150,000 libel suit against his employer's estranged wife, Mary Macfadden (TIME, Feb. 1). Editor Oursler charged she had written three nasty letters about him, one to New Jersey's Governor Hoffman, two to Hoffman's secretary. One of the alleged letters went so far as to suggest that Mr. Oursler might have conspired the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, intending to glorify Bernarr Macfadden by having him pay a big reward for the return of the child and to enrich Oursler by collecting...
...which made New Jersey's Hoffman exclaim: "It's bad enough to be a Republican without having to be known as a poet...
...Manhattan banquet, New Jersey's Republican Governor Harold Giles Hoffman suggested that the G. O. Party emblem be changed from the elephant to the deer since the deer would "make a better run" and "a few bucks and a little doe would not hurt a damn bit." Thereupon the guests were treated by the toastmaster to a three stanza Hoffman poem, Where's My Daddy?, about a father who gets run over by an automobile...