Word: newport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kentucky Infantry on the Mexican border in 1916, went to France with it in 1918. In the St. Mihiel offensive he was cited for valor, promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. At the head of a troop of Kentucky National Guardsmen in 1921 he put down a riot in strike-torn Newport, was promoted to Brigadier General of the National Guard. Grateful Newporters presented him with a saddle horse, and for similar service citizens of Fort later gave him a set of silver. But as the years passed, hard-bitten General Denhardt won the dislike of many a Kentuckian...
Married. Actress Margaret Garland Sullavan, 25, onetime wife of Actor Henry Fonda; and Leland Hayward, Manhattan theatre & cinema agent (chief client: Katharine Hepburn) ; in Newport...
Prime New Deal propaganda was a recent New Yorker cartoon which pictured a plump, baldish economic royalist murmuring to a reluctant, expensive young woman: "And if Roosevelt is not reelected, perhaps even a villa in Newport, my dearest sweet...
...Disillusioned by handouts at a publicspeaking class in Manhattan's Women's National Republican Club, Mrs. Charles S. Whitman, wife of New York's onetime (1915-18) Republican Governor, announced that she will campaign this year for President Roosevelt. Said she: "Even in Newport I found a number of people whispering behind closed doors that they were in favor of Roosevelt...
After many small groups had met for "quiet times," some 400 Groupers and friends congregated in Newport's Casino Theatre. There they viewed the First Century Christian Fellowship cinema Bridge Builders, later enjoyed a buffet supper, beamed, chatted in the ballroom of the Casino. Practically all were oldsters. The younger set had had their shindig the night before at a "White Elephant Bal Masque" at the Newport Country Club...