Word: hyde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...James Hazen Hyde, wife of the founder of potent Equitable Life Assurance Society, bought the magnificently wooded Villa Serbelloni on the high promontory which cuts Lake Como, most famed Italian lake, into three branches. Villas on this site have passed through many hands, including those of Gaius Caecilius Pliny, King Theodoric of the Goths, King Liutprand of the Lombards, the Counts Sfondrati. Recently it has been an hotel...
What made President Hoover feel good last week about the Drought and the Red Cross was the report he received from Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, just back from an inspection trip. The President did the extraordinary thing of turning his office over to Secretary Hyde to address the Press thus: "Those Drought relief loans have reached the spot. . . . You can see new garden fences. . . . There is a very much more hopeful attitude all through the country. ... I didn't find a single criticism. ... I heard nothing of human suffering...
Supplementing the Hyde report, Chairman Payne of the Red Cross informed the President that his organization was feeding only about a million mouths now, compared with two million six weeks ago. Said he: "People in those sections are looking up. Arkansas is feeling good. The State now has her tail over the dashboard and is coming back fast...
...Holland. An agent of Capitalist August Heckscher of Manhattan announced that New Holland Corp. might be dissolved. Six years ago the capitalist's and the corporation's names were news enough to set residents of Hyde County, N. C. agog. The capitalist poured millions into the company; the company set up huge pumping stations which drained the marshy old bed of Lake Matamuskeet for a mammoth "factory-farming" project. Wheat and soybeans were planted in great batches. First year it rained, flooding New Holland. Second year New Holland was a success. Third year brought a new failure...
...Appellate Court in Chicago put an end to the eight-year fight of Lady Marguerite Hyde, Countess of Suffolk 6 Berkshire, and the daughters of the late Lady Mary Curzon, Mary Irene, Baroness Ravensdale, Lady Cynthia Blanche Mosely and Lady Alexandra Naldera Metcalfe to have Joseph Leiter of Chicago ousted as trustee of his father's $30,000,000 estate. Joseph Leiter's sister and nieces claimed that he had spent $7,000.000 too much in developing Wyoming ranch lands, that he was extravagant personally, having once ordered 50 doz. pairs of silk socks. He cried: "I am a hard...