Word: mainland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many a Bostonian declined an invitation to the wedding reception. Startled Mother Clark, after planning for 400 guests, received White House requests for 550 invitations, most of which were accepted. The Secret Service cautiously wired off the narrow causeway leading out to the village from the mainland, made guests walk to the church. Cars there were for the bride & groom's families, including the entire clan Roosevelt, even Sistie and Buzzie Dall (now 11 and 7, called Eleanor and Curtis), with their mother, Mrs. John Boettiger, all the way from Seattle...
Hicks began by saying that the idea for his book occurred after reading "Mainland," which "Nauseated me," and Harold Stearns' "Rediscovery of American," which displayed the author's renewed faith in American civilization. "My book," said Hicks, "states why I, as a radical, like America." He added that he wanted to look at his own position as a Communist and see whether his ideas held water...
...left John D. Rockefeller to run it and retired to Florida in 1883 with ever mounting millions in profits. These he proceeded to invest in building Florida hotels (one with 13 miles of corridors), towns, railroads. One of his dreams was to connect Key West with the mainland. He declared he would die in peace once his railroad stretched over the 140 miles of coral reefs to the most southerly U. S. city. Seven years, some 200 lives and $28,000,000 was the cost of building concrete viaducts across the keys, and in 1912, the year before Flagler died...
Prisoners in Alcatraz are aflowed one visitor each month. On the last day of February and the first day of March, Prisoner Al Capone was visited by his wife Mae. His brother Ralph stood around outside. Back on the mainland they were cornered by reporters. No, Al was not insane, they said. He was just broken in spirit. "Well, what do we do to get rid of you?" said Ralph. The reporters said they should pose for a picture. "Half my face,'' said Mae, wearily. Photographers then snapped the first picture (see cut) of Mae Capone since...
Hugging the coast of southern Georgia lie half-a-dozen bosky islands-Jekyl, where the Vanderbilts built up an estate; Sapelo, where Calvin Coolidge vacationed; Sea Island, developed as a swank resort by Howard Coffin. St. Simons Island, connected by a causeway with the mainland and with Sea Island, is sparsely populated, but many a tourist travels its white-shell roads, lined with Spanish moss-hung trees, to see its Wesley Oaks. Beneath these, and in old Christ Church nearby, the founder of Methodism preached two centuries ago. In the dark of one night last week, someone stole past...