Word: randolph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would allow themselves to be peacefully legislated out of their property in a few months presumes just a bit too much on the softening influence of California sunshine. Sinclair's name may appear on the Democratic ballot in the primaries this August, but no doubt Harry Chandler and William Randolph Hearst will find means to ensure his getting no more than the fifty thousand votes he has been accustomed to win as a perennial Socialist candidate. It really is unfortunate, too, for an attempt to work out the EPIC plan would be a refreshing variation in the mad scramble...
...galleries. There was plenty to smile about, for not one seat in the huge house was vacant. A crowd of 16,000. biggest ever to attend a U. S. tennis match, had paid $30,125 to get in. Of that sum the Garden collected $10,500. Mrs. William Randolph Hearst's Free Milk Fund for Babies got $3,760. Promoter Tilden, his business manager William O'Brien, and Ellsworth Vines, his opponent across the net, were to share about $15,000 for what was to happen in the next two hours. Public interest in the match...
...Loesch was never a member of Colonel Isham Randolph's organization for fighting Chicago gangsters called the "Secret Six." He said some reporter must have been guilty of nicknaming that unmysterious group of twenty...
...made permanent. "Jungle warfare," said he, "has no place in modern industry. The exploitation of workers . . . has been a deep, underlying cause of our lack of social advance." The Herald Tribune, supposedly behind the Presidential candidacy of its owner's cousin, Ogden Livingston Mills, conspicuously printed: "Miss Lucy Randolph Mason, general secretary of the National Consumers' League . . . said that she had been so impressed by Governor Winant's address that although I've never voted the Republican ticket I'd like to turn Mugwump and nominate him for President.' " Taking the cue, the Times...
...flag was out at Sloan's Washington furniture auction house last week to mark another auction. It was not very smart furniture-ricketty rosewood tables, bulbous bureaus, gilt knicknacks popular in the late go's. But Abraham Lincoln's granddaughter, Mrs. Robert J. Randolph, went down to the sale as did 300 other Washington socialites, for under the auctioneer's hammer were the household effects of Admiral &; Mrs. George Dewey. No U. S. hero, not even Charles Augustus Lindbergh, was ever the object of more hysterical mob adulation than was the walrus-mustached old gentleman...