Word: roslyn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Long Island last week Mrs. Mackay (Singer Anna Case) was furnishing a gardener's cottage on their Roslyn estate. When the cottage is ready, Mr. & Mrs. Mackay will shutter the big house-paintings, armor, indoor tennis courts & all- let the sunken gardens and model farms run wild, move into the cottage with one servant...
Golfers who were busy last week speculating on minor problems such as 8-in. cups (see above) were reminded of this serious one again last week when the Engineers' Country Club at Roslyn. L. I., most famed links which has thus far succumbed to Depression, announced that the club would disband, sell its property at foreclosure...
...popped Mrs. Mackay indignantly not in the least indisposed. Nor was she, as the New York Daily News suggested, suddenly so eager to string popcorn for the Mackay Christmas tree in Roslyn, L. I., that she had renounced a $4,000 contract. Her Roxy program, she said, had been all arranged. She had planned to sing Christmas carols against a background representing the Nativity. She had even discussed details with the management, decided to use a donkey, dismissed the idea of including a cow. The Roxy management, threatened with suit, admitted that it had been mistaken about Mrs. Mackay...
Clarence Hungerford Mackay denied a report, persistent in his Long Island neighborhood, that he, unable to meet heavy taxes, had deeded his 250-acre Roslyn estate "Harbor Hill" to the Roman Catholic church, which was permitting him to stay on in his house at nominal rent. The estate belongs not to him, is trusteed to his son John...
...envy and hate the ground that ladies like Mrs. Sabin walk on. Crusaders. A companion organization to Mrs. Sabin's is the Crusaders, which numbers a million militant male members (chiefly young) and which was founded in the same month and year. Last week. two days after the Roslyn convention, the Crusaders, 40 trustees and commanders met privately in the country home of Trustee Leonard Hanna at Mentor, Ohio, near Cleveland where the organization was formed. Plotting their part in the coming elections, the Crusader board, of which Mrs. Sabin's stepson Charles Jr. is a member, took...