Word: locusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvey Dow Gibson was born in North Conway. N. H. Now he lives on a great estate at Locust Valley. He rides after hounds with the Meadowbrook and wears on his chin the scar of a fall. Every morning his sleek cruiser Mystery awaits him in his own yacht basin to take him to Manhattan. Not always has he sped to work on a yacht. First, without much delight, he swept out the offices of American Express Co. in Boston. He turned out to be quite a broom. In a few years he had swept himself into place as financial...
...Charles Pratt who was a co-founder of Standard Oil Co. and founder of Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N. Y.; and James Ramsay Hunt Jr., son of Dr. James Ramsay Hunt who served as War-time neuropsychiatrist with the A. E. F.; at St. John's of Lattingtown, Locust Valley, L. I. (tiny socialite church to which Banker John Pierpont Morgan presented last year a brand new carved oak interior...
When Manhattan Banker John Edward Aldred ordered holiday bathers off the private beach of his home, Ormston House at Locust Valley, L. I., they pelted him with stones. Next day a private police booth was erected on Banker Aldred's estate which is flanked by the homes and beaches of George Fisher Baker, Mrs. Henry Pomeroy Davison and John Pierpont Morgan...
...committee. Other of Banker Gibson's experiences include working for American Express Co. after he graduated from Bowdoin and, after that, a vice-presidency of Raymond & Whitcomb, travel agents, which he & friends controlled. During 1919 he was U. S. Red Cross commissioner for all Europe. He lives in Locust Valley, L. I., plays tennis, rides with the Meadowbrook...
Died. William Jay Robinson, 62, proprietor of the Stage Coach Inn at Locust Valley, L. L, oldtime newspaperman (Atlanta Constitution, Chicago Tribune) and Klondike miner, founder of the Optimists Club of America (membership 300,000); in Locust Valley. He took the first shipment of gold out of the Klondike, made a fortune, lost it in the panic of 1907, founded his club soon afterward...