Word: randolph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Money. Of major importance was cash for the campaign. In 1928 the Hoover ticket cost the party $9,433,604. With Republican purses feeling as thin as anyone's, about half that sum is budgeted for this year's campaign. Treasurer Joseph Randolph Nutt consulted with Jeremiah Milbank, who lined up most of the party's "fat cats" in the East four years...
Some 150 schoolteachers, touring the ranch of Publisher William Randolph Hearst at San Simeon, Calif., crashed through a temporary flooring into an empty, unfinished concrete swimming pool. Fifteen had to be taken in ambulances 60 mi. to San Luis Obispo...
...below the street is 8½ ft. of steel and concrete. Throughout the building upstairs are secret alarms, turned on by gentle knee or elbow pressure. These are sometimes rung in error, sending 100 ex-Marine guards to the spot on the run with guns ready. Deputy Governor W. Randolph Burgess rang a false alarm by mistake the first day he arrived. Communication is maintained with Governors Island, 15 min. away, where ten companies of infantry are stationed. Enough food is on hand to keep the bank alive for a long siege. Tales are told that the vault itself would...
...onetime Treasury Secretary in 1924 and were now ready to help out the onetime Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Speaker Garner, they reported, was ready to drop his candidacy for first place on the ticket, provided he was given second place. Under the influence of Publisher William Randolph Hearst, flattered with the notion of making a President, Mr. McAdoo was ready to swing Texas and California to Roosevelt and thus bury the hatchet?in Al Smith's back. At this news Mr. Howe's wrinkled face wrinkled even more. Reaching for the telephone, he called Governor Roosevelt in Albany...
Famed English fathers and their sons were the guests of Father Winston Churchill at a coming-of-age dinner to Son Randolph Churchill in London's Socialite Claridges Hotel. Newspaper Peers Beaverbrook, Rothermere and Camrose all brought their sons as did Admiral Earl Beatty, Prime Minister Viscount Craigavon of Northern Ireland and Viscount Hailsham, Minister of War, whose son is the Hon. Quintin Hogg. The coming-of-age toast to Son Churchill, who sat between his kinsman the Duke of Marlborough and the Marquess of Reading, was proposed by the youthful Earl of Birkenhead, son of England...