Word: oyster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...related to the Hyde Park or the Oyster Bay Roosevelts...
...votes, though Calvin Coolidge carried New York State by 870,000. From then on, Young Teddy never won an office. His two big political posts-Governor of Puerto Rico and Governor General of the Philippines-came to him by Presidential appointments. Later, the jest was that the Oyster Bay Roosevelts were out of season. He lived quietly in a $90,000 home he built in 1938 at Oyster Bay, served successively as board chairman of American Express and vice president of Doubleday, Doran...
Meatless. In Washington, the War Food Administration made out its usual paychecks to Employes Mary Bean, George Fruit, Maybert Corn, Samuel G. Salmon, Esther Olive, William Meal and Fairfax Oyster. Mr. Oyster is an expert on peanuts...
Died. Isaac Deforest ("Ike") White, 78, long the late New York World's star crime reporter; in Syracuse, N.Y. He tracked down wife-killers, trapped oyster pirates, outwitted Yucatan slavers. From the remains of an unknown "anarchist" who bombed himself and Financier Russell Sage's office to pieces, White chose a button (detectives chose a head), identified the bomber as a Boston broker...
Meanwhile, Atlantic City prepared for its next contest-to choose the nation's swiftest clam and oyster openers. That sounded like more...