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Bennet is a political unknown even in the district, though his father served eight years in Congress. But he has a sound political background. He is president of the Newburgh Y.M.C.A., a churchman, a onetime president of the local Chamber of Commerce, a Son of the American Revolution. Last week he got Dewey's backing. He also has the backing of many independent Republicans. What he did not have and would not get was the support of the ancient, cast-iron Republican machine which dominates the district. The district GOPoliticos, backing Fish again, were set to crush any upstart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bennett & Bennet | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

Young (44) Gus Bennet is a successful Newburgh lawyer who is earnestly ready to sacrifice his income and comfortable private existence in order to retire Ham Fish from Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bennett & Bennet | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

When Warren Delano lost his fortune in the panic of 1857, he left his home near Newburgh, N.Y., went back to China to recoup his wealth. Five years later he sent for his family. Sara was then a little girl. She went out to China on the clipper Surprise. They lived a year in crowded Hong Kong, traveled home by leisurely stages through Europe. In Berlin she spent one winter, studying at a private school. In Paris she spent another. Back in Newburgh, Sara Delano became a belle of the Hudson River Valley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Death of a Lady | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

Divorced. William Buehler Seabrook, 55, travel writer, student of cannibalism, voodoo and primitive sex customs (Jungle Ways, The Magic Island); by Marjorie Worthington Seabrook, 41, his onetime companion in African exploration; in Newburgh, N.Y. She was his second wife, he her second husband. Her first husband married Seabrook's first wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 11, 1941 | 8/11/1941 | See Source »

...Church Newburgh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 16, 1940 | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

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