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...MEINKE (R) 7902 Oakington, Houston...
Died. Millard Evelyn ("Glad") Tydings, 70, whose acid tongue, during his 35 years as a Maryland state representative, U.S. Congressman and four-term Senator, made him enemies ranging from Franklin Roosevelt to Joe McCarthy; of pneumonia; on his 550-acre Oakington estate near Havre de Grace, Md. A maverick Democratic Senator who said in 1933 that "If I can't vote my sentiments, to hell with this job," Tydings voted in favor of reciprocal trade and foreign aid, against such domestic New Deal projects as AAA and NRA, which he called "alphabetical monstrosities." Though marked for purge by F.D.R...
Major Garey went to work for Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., cultivated his farm, played with his seven children, pondered pedagogy. Last week he announced that next autumn he will open a school for boys. He has acquired "Oakington," the 550-acre estate of the late Commodore Leonard Richards on Chesapeake Bay near Aberdeen, Md. Designed by Stanford White, it contains 25 rooms and a ballroom. Adjacent are a model farm, a garden with venerable boxwood, enough tenant houses for 100 boys and faculty members. The school will be "progressive," carry learning-by-doing to its extreme. Grey-haired...
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