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Married. Alida Douglas Robinson, 18, Manhattan socialite, daughter of one-time Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Douglas Robinson, grandniece of the late Theodore Roosevelt and the late John Jacob Astor; and Kenneth S. Walker, Harvard graduate; in Hyde Park, N. Y., birthplace of her mother, whose late father, James Roosevelt Roosevelt, was half-brother to President Roosevelt (who attended...
...Federal Council's figures were approvingly cited last week by President Roosevelt when, introduced as "America's apostle of neighborliness," he mounted the pulpit of the Hyde Park Methodist Episcopal Church and spoke during a centenary celebration. Said he: "The churches are doing their share. The members have shown a splendid spirit...
...many conservative souls who vividly recall her goings on, because the memorial was erected with her own money, and finally because its site is the most prominent in all San Francisco, for many months there was agitation against erecting the tower at all. At the last minute the Park Commission bowed to the extent of changing the name from Coit Memorial Tower to Coit Tower. But no lady ever more richly deserved a lighthouse...
...Park & Tilford before the War was one of the largest liquor dealers in the U. S. They stocked tycoons' cellars from Manhattan to San Francisco. Hard hit by the loss of this profitable trade, they expanded their grocery and restaurant business in the last decade, but at the first hint of repeal more than a year ago President Gordon Stewart began to renew his European contracts. Their gin is Booth's High & Dry, their Scotch Sanderson's Vat 69, their champagne Heidsieck's Monopole, their sherries, ports and Madeiras John Harvey & Sons'. When the Schulte...
...dickering with another distributor. Canada Dry Ginger Ale, once its dryish directors were converted to the liquor business, went after Bacardi. The Canada Dry executive who handled the regulations left to build up a liquor business for the Schulte interests. Soon he was trying to get Bacardi for Park & Tilford. Schenley Distillers went after Bacardi; so did National Distillers, Lamborn & Co. (sugar), R. C. Williams, W. A. Taylor & Co. Thoroughly enjoying the game, the Bacardis played one off against the other...