Word: pontes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor. Samuel I. Rosenman whom he named to the New York Supreme Court. Justice Rosenman. a roly-poly who stands about 5 ft. 8 in. in his silk socks and weighs 205 lb., goes on many a Roosevelt fishing trip, frequently visits the White House, attended the Du Pont-Roosevelt nuptials, accompanied the President on two of his three major campaign trips last year, a swing to Denver, another through West Virginia to Pittsburgh. Credited with having assembled the Brain Trust in 1932, Judge Rosenman, unlike the Brain Trusters, kept out of the limelight. Last week Judge Rosenman was drafted...
...heavy with a threat of squally weather. Lightning glimmered occasionally in the distance, and mountainous dark storm-clouds or "thunderheads," with flat bottoms and bulging, shifting domes were moving in on Harris Hill. On the hilltop, where the meet was in progress, Soaring Pilot Richard Chichester du Pont appraised the grim thunderheads with eager eyes, then took off in his big, sleek sailplane after an automobile tow. Up, up, up he circled on rising air currents, while hundreds of faces turned up at him from the ground. Pilots of motored planes swing far off their courses to avoid thunderheads...
Married. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., 22, and Ethel du Pont, 21; at Christiana Hundred...
Last spring when his horses. Fairy Hill and Rosemont. won the $50,000 Santa Anita Derby and the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap in quick succession, William du Pont Jr., whose reputation as the horsiest member of his Delaware clan had previously been based on his stable of steeplechasers, decided to open a race track of his own. Last week the new track, Delaware's first since the State Legislature legalized betting in 1935,* opened. In the feature race of opening day, some 20,000 spectators saw Mrs. C. Oliver Iselin's Strabo nose out John Hay Whitney...
Marriage Revealed. Denise du Pont, adopted daughter of the late Powdermaker Alfred I. du Pont; to Harvard Graduate Student Carl Zapffe; in Cambridge, Mass...