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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...
...misleading sample of what the Southeast offers to gunners. Almost anywhere from Virginia to mid-Florida, quail abound. Wild-fowling in the Carolinas-duck, geese, brant-is a sport of moderate temperatures, unlike the cold-blown shooting of northern rivers and bays. When Mr. Hoover visits Mr. Penney at Belle Isle shortly, accounts of Southeastern fishing will doubtless go forth, though the tarpon, greatest of Southeastern game-fish, is caught off Florida's west coast...
...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...
Divorced. James Cash Penney, Jr., glider enthusiast, son of the famed chain store tycoon and devout Methodist benefactor of Whiteplains, N. Y., & Miami; by Marie Louise du Coudray Penney of Manhattan. Two days after their marriage in 1924 the Penneys were separated...
...Dick did win. James Cash Penney, chain store owner and raiser of Guernsey, paid $7 a pound for Dick-$8,050 all told. The highest previous price was $3.60 a pound, two years ago. Mr. Penney intended to ship Dick to Manhattan, exhibit him to the urbanites, then eat him for Christmas dinner. But gourmanderie was not Mr. Penney's prime reason for buying Dick, nor advertising. He has stores in small towns throughout the country and he wished to encourage boy & girl stockbreeders, his customers...