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...summer it is Sea Bright, Southampton, Newport, Rye-staying at the best hotels or draw-my-bath private homes. In the winter it is Palm Beach, Bermuda, Jamaica. In the spring Pinehurst, Asheville, Hot Springs-guests of hotel managements that occasionally offer more attractive bait for players than mere traveling expenses and $30-a-day suites. Some tournament promoters have been known to offer lump-sum traveling expenses that could take the player to Buenos Aires and back. Now & then a well-heeled promoter has even been known to get around the amateur code by making a friendly little wager...
...letter was written, of course, by Franklin Roosevelt's son-in-law, John Boettiger, publisher of Hearst's Seattle Post-Intelligencer. It got under Elliott's hide. From Pinehurst, N. C. he retorted to Brother-in-law Boettiger in his best literary style...
Fortnight ago Mr. Cummings went to Pinehurst, N. C. for his annual golfing party (35 male guests). Vexed to find him absent, the President, who wanted to see him about Federal judgeship appointments,** asked him to return to Washington within four days. Mr. Cummings returned at once and the President announced his resignation, accompanied by public exchanges of mutual cordiality...
Back in Washington after a fortnight at Pinehurst-during which he dabbled about with a putter, found golf almost as amusing as his favorite game of croquet, Secretary of State Cordell Hull last week found it necessary to play his way out of three delicate diplomatic hazards. The slow-speaking Secretary timed his strokes well and executed them neatly but, as golfers have a habit of doing, he felt inclined by week's end to indulge in a dash of reasonably non-diplomatic language...
...them promptly to the department concerned for comment before they are reported out of committee. Only relevant comment on the Scott Resolution the State Department could make would be to name Italy, Germany and Japan as treaty breakers-which cautious Secretary Cordell Hull, who was last week golfing at Pinehurst, N. C., has thus far been careful not to do. Byron Scott, who has been trying to get the Neutrality Act repealed, at least as it affects Spain, and who had attended a dinner party of consequential U. S. liberals and newspaper bigwigs at the Soviet Embassy earlier...