Word: roslyn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...string of smart motors swished up the driveway to Mrs. Edward Small Moore's shingled, rambling country home in Roslyn, L. I. one sunny morning last week. Out of the shining automobiles stepped 70 ladies clad brightly, tastefully, expensively. Reckoned by money and prestige, they were the cream of the nation's womanhood, gathered from Maine to Oregon. Inside the Moore house they sat on Early American chairs and ate a chatty meal. Then the ladies repaired to a long drawing room full of roses and tulips. At this point the gathering lost all resemblance to a conventional...
...founded in May 1929 at Chicago. Program- The W. O. N. P. R. program has followed that of the longtime Dry policy: trying to get men in Congress and the White House who will support the cause. This autumn the organization faces its first big test, for which the Roslyn meeting, last week, was a prelude. There are 435 Representatives, 33 Senators, one President and one Vice President to be campaigned for or against. It takes money to campaign, as Mrs. Sabin's Wet sisterhood well knows. National headquarters of W. O. N. P. R. seldom has more than...
Procedure. Having gotten a thumbs-down on the 18th Amendment from the Democrats and at least a thumbs-sideways from the Republicans, last week Wets made ready the next steps toward wrenching Prohibition from the Federal statute books. Mrs. Sabin's sisterhood was to meet at Roslyn, L. I. July 7 to decide which Presidential candidate it would support. The Crusaders, the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment and the United Repeal Council were to meet later for a like purpose. There are 33 Senatorial elections ahead in November and 435 Representatives to be campaigned for or against before...
Fire destroyed "Bay Tree House" and about 150 rare Holland bay trees, valued at $30,000, on the Roslyn, L. I. estate of Clarence Hungerford Mackay, threatened a nearby greenhouse containing one of the most valuable orchid collections in the world...
...automobile crash near her husband's Roslyn, L. I., estate caused when her chauffeur swerved to avoid another car, Mrs. Clarence H- Mackay, the former Anna Case, opera singer, was cut on the face and hand, severely bruised...