Word: pettigrew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With Scornful Eye and Harpy Tongue, Senator Pettigrew Views With Alarm...
Richard Franklin Pettigrew, of Sioux Falls, was elected to the United States Senate in 1889. He remained there until 1902 when Mark Hanna "raised a vast sum of money to corrupt the voters of South Dakota...
...mayor," as he doesn't "want anything more to do with horses." Fortunately Mable isn't neglected for long, and the audience is spared wasting sympathy over there plight, because a naval aviator, Jack Wing, keeps here from getting lonely while Gwendolyn, the step-daughter of the rich Mrs. Pettigrew, is pursuing Bill at a Long Island country club. For a short time, the audience can only pin their faith on the author to bring Bill and Mable together, because they are so far separated that there seems no power but the exigencies of the playwright hard...