Word: longworths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Would you mind answering it? 'Could you tell us the average age of world dictators when they come into power?' " Said Mr. Miller: "No, I could not." Everyone turned to stare at the two women. One of them was easily recognized as Alice Longworth, but she was not the writer of the note. Columnist Dorothy Thompson, wife of Sinclair (It Can't Happen Here) Lewis, was. One of the witnesses was Ferdinand Pecora, Justice of New York's Supreme Court. Familiar with Senate investigationl from his Job as chief inquisitor in the banking investigation...
Many times heralded as one of the best photographs of the year is this actively impressionistic photograph of Bandleader Cab Calloway by Bert Longworth. It is reprinted here by special permission of the editors of U. S. Camera 1936. He'd make a swell interference runner Giant Neil Simpson and Gerald Kagel, coaches the South Dakota School of Mines 1037 graduates shake hands with Tyramusruns Rex, a reptile what the Redlands 40,000,000 years ago and is now a resident of the WPA's Dinosaur Park near Sioux Falls...
...Camels. Senator Reynolds admitted that he smoked Camels but he assured questioners that he did smoke and enjoy Lucky Strikes on occasion. No other Lucky Strike-endorsing Senator would speak up but that there were more was clearly indicated one night last week when smart, socialite Alice Roosevelt Longworth commercialized herself in Washington over a nation-wide Lucky Strike radio hookup. Mrs. Longworth set a new high of some kind when she described the superior clarity with which the voices of Lucky Strike-smoking Senators could be heard in the Senate gallery...
...exotic reputation, champagne was one of the earliest wines to be successfully produced in the U. S. Nicholas Longworth Sr., great grandfather of the late Speaker of the House, produced it in Ohio as early as 1825, and by 1855 had 1,200 acres of vineyards in cultivation near the confluence of the Little Miami and Ohio rivers. His "sparkling Catawba" at $12 a case sold 150,000 bottles a year. This frontier curiosity was wiped out by the Civil War. Great U. S. champagne country now is the Finger Lakes region of New York State...
Other speakers will be Nicholas Longworth, former minister to Hungary and at present a member of the editorial staff of the New York Herald Tribune, and Alfred Baker Lewis, Socialist candidate for governor of Massachusetts. The subject of the three talks will be "How will the election affect our foreign relations...