Word: newport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hudson, north of New York. The dusky messiah became a human spite fence last summer when Howland Spencer, socialite anti-New Dealer, sold Father Divine his-estate at Krum Elbow, across the river from the Roosevelts' Hyde Park. Last week, in a pet, an embattled woman of Newport, R. I. threatened a similar sale...
...Kaufman, divorced wife of the late President Joseph Kaufman of American Razor Co., had acquired The Castle, onetime home of the late Ambassador to Italy Richard Washburn Child, had turned the stone mansion into an inn. Mrs. Kaufman applied for a liquor license. Her neighbors, among them socialites and Newport's mayor, filed objections, as the law allowed...
Last week, when her application was denied, Mrs. Kaufman telegraphed Father Divine: "Newport is seething in corruption and politics. I own a castle. Kindly advise me when you can come." Mrs. Kaufman announced that she would sell or give The Castle to Father Divine unless her neighbors bought it for $40,000. She reduced her price to $10,000. Still no takers. In great agitation, threatening to "spend $100,000 to rip this city apart," Mrs. Kaufman took to her bed with a nervous collapse...
Last week the rabbi of Manhattan's Spanish and Portuguese congregation, Dr. David de Sola Pool, journeyed to Newport, R. I. to help celebrate the tercentenary of the city's founding. On the Sabbath eve, in Touro Synagogue (the nation's oldest, circa 1760), Dr. de Sola Pool took part in a service recalling one in 1790, when the Jews welcomed George Washington to Newport. George Washington's reply, a famed letter, was broadcast in part by Dr. de Sola Pool in a radio speech. Excerpt...
Marriage Disclosed. Eleanor ("Cooky") Young, 21, onetime (1936) No. 1 Manhattan debutante; and Socialite Robert Ogden ("Bunny") Bacon Jr., 27; her first, his second; in Newport...