Word: shores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sudden West Indian hurricane and tidal wave smote the south shore of Santo Domingo, drove the U. S. S. Memphis, 14,500-ton cruiser anchored in the harbor, up on the rocks where she remains to this day. Live steam from broken pipes made below-decks an inferno. Last week at the White House President Hoover conferred the Navy's Medal of Honor upon Commander Claud Ashton Jones, the Memphis' senior engineer, for his heroism 16 years ago in evacuating the injured from her engine room...
...National Committeeman. When Theodore Roosevelt Jr. quit the Assembly in 1921 to go to Washington, Trubee Davison got himself elected to the vacancy. His colleagues found him easy, democratic, willing to work. He was made chairman of the committee on taxation. He kept his bailiwick?the fashionable North Shore of Long Island?friendly and peaceful. Its biggest annual political event still is the Republican clambake on the Davison estate...
...must to all women, to Edith Rockefeller McCormick. Once she was called the world's richest woman. But cancer makes no distinctions. Two years ago she had a growth removed from her breast. It reappeared in her liver. When she moved to the Drake from her mansion on Lake Shore Drive in June (TIME, Aug. 1), she and her doctors knew the end was near...
...marriage to Painter A. C. Svarstad was annulled. She was humanly pleased to get the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928 but gave it all ($42,000) to charity. With her four children, Sigrid Undset, now 50, lives in a house over 900 years old on the shore of a lake in the valley of Lillehammer, Norway. When she looks up from her writing, she sees on her desk a photograph of U. S. Authoress Willa Gather. Other books: The Master of Hestviken, Jenny, Krist
...began to fall. The securities were sold to pay the bond issue. Bank loans were called. Mrs. McCormick met her obligations but in doing so had to place a $220,000 mortgage on her Lake Forest home and a $557,500 mortgage on the mansion at No. 1000 Lake Shore Drive which was a wedding present from her father. Now, on sunny days, she sometimes leaves the Drake to cross the Drive and enter the garden of her closed home. She must often muse over the scenes behind the foreboding Romanesque walls of grey stone when she was Chicago...