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...Donald K. Anderson 2L, Phoenix, Ariz.; Lars H. Bengston 3L, Minneapolis, Minn.; Russell S. Bernhard 3L, Chicago, Ill.; John A. Bowler 3L, Bradford, Pa.; William A. Centner 2L, Battle Creek, Mich,; Howard L. Clark 2L, Altadena, Calif.; John D. Cochran 3L, Pittsburgh, Pa.; John P. Corcoran, Jr. 3L, Rhinebeck...
Author Seabrook got the idea by looking around at his foreign-born neighbors in the Hudson River's Rhinebeck Valley, where he owns an eight-acre farm., In his boyhood days in Maryland and Kansas these neighbors would have been called dumb Swedes, squareheads, Dagos, Polacks, Heinies, wops, troublemakers, agitators and so forth. In Rhinebeck they were just neighborly Americans, Republicans, Democrats. Seabrook had a hunch that elsewhere in the U. S. the foreign born were equally good citizens. He decided to take a look for himself...
...nearly half a century William Vincent Astor, biggest, richest U. S. landlord, friend and fellow-fisherman of Frank-lin Roosevelt, has tinkered with trains- toy and real. On his Rhinebeck, N. Y. farm a foot-high locomotive chuffs over 600 yd. of miniature track, while its owner potently sits on the boards of such full-sized lines as Great Northern and Illinois Central. Five years ago Railroader Astor purchased five acres of Bermuda's 19 square miles of tax free soil,* began to build a lordly tropical house, "Ferry Reach," and meantime extended his land along the waterfront...
...week began with the Dutchess County Fair, at Rhinebeck, N. Y., a few miles up the Albany Post Road from Hyde Park. One visit to the Fair, for any Dutchess County squire, amounts almost to an obligation. Last week, the President made two. First afternoon, his car drew up under a canopy where the prize-winning cow and calf were brought over to be patted and he held the day's informal press conference. Next day Ambassador Robert W. Bingham, just back from London, lunched at Hyde Park. In the afternoon the President went to the Fair again, awarded...
PAUL B. DAGUE Past Dept. Vice-Commander Department of Pennsylvania The American Legion Downingtown, Pa. When he was elected President in 1932, Franklin Roosevelt belonged not to one but three New York Legion posts: Fort Orange No. 30 (Albany); Montgomery No. 429 (Rhinebeck); Lafayette No. 37 (Poughkeepsie). He no longer considers himself a member of the Albany post, is still on the rolls of the other two, although by the Legion constitution, a member may not belong to more than one post...