Word: penney
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...left his temporary headquarters at the Mayflower Hotel, entrained for Florida. With him went Mrs. Hoover and an entourage of friends, newsmen, photographers, hawkshaws. Mr. Hoover had canceled his proposed West Indian trip, was to spend a pre-inaugural month on semi-vacation at the home of James Cash Penney, famed chain store dry-goods tycoon...
...Penney had traveled from Oregon to Palo Alto, Calif., and had personally offered the Penney home to Mr. Hoover as a vacation spot. This generosity was undoubtedly stimulated by the admiration of like for like. Mr. Penney, like Mr. Hoover, followed a stressful, impoverished career to a felicitous climax. James Penney is now 54. His father was a Missouri Baptist parson. James was the seventh of 12 children. At the age of eight he earned his own clothing with a piggery, a watermelon patch. He ran a small store where the currency was pins. Stores of various kinds have occupied...
...Penney home is on Belle Isle, across a causeway from Miami Beach. At Miami, the Hoover party was welcomed by Governor Carlton amid a Florida fanfaronade. Host Penney was not at Belle Isle to greet Guest Hoover; he left, last week, on a round-the-world trip. But he had given Mr. Hoover the keys...
...Penney home is a spacious Italian Renaissance villa of white limestone with a low roof of apricot-colored tiles. It overlooks Biscayne Bay, is set in the midst of tropical greenery cut by serpentine driveways. On the estate is a shallow goldfish pool bright with water blossoms, a mosaic tiled swimming pool, a putting green and an observatory with a little cupola like those of Mohammedan minarets...
...Where Spaniards looked for gold and life-everlasting and pirates later lolled at ease amid hidden booty, U. S. tycoons of today have built winter mansions and game preserves. The Penney estate at Belle Isle, though it views Miami's skyscrapers across Biscayne Bay, is as secluded as any nest that a pirate ever made for himself on Bimimi or the Dry Tortugas. The late Henry M. Flagler, founder of Florida's perpetual youth, was not the first modern tycoon to visit the Southeast and his railroad and hotels meant more to the commonalty than to Mr. Flagler...