Word: spa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...miles east of Saratoga Springs, N. Y., famed socialite-racing-gambling-health resort where the cornerstone of a new spa building was laid last fortnight (TIME, July 24), lies Schuylerville, once called Saratoga, whose inhabitants were massacred by French & Indians in 1745. One mile west of Saratoga Springs lies Ashgrove Farm, Edward Barber Ashton's "million-dollar" turkey ranch...
...Mayor Jean Medicin of Nice is prominent. Thus "M'sieu Goolt," who enjoyed poor health last summer, transferred to Frenchmen the thankless job of running these properties on the cheap until kitties grow fat again. Other Gould properties in France, including his paper mill, chocolate factory and the spa Bagnoles de l'Orne, remain under the managership of Frank Jay's parent corporation Holding des Palaces et Casinos...
...curt, bristling National Hero whom Japanese crowds call adoringly "Our Devil Tycoon" and "Our Strong Shogun" returned last week to Tokyo in terrific triumph. He, Lieut.-General Shigeru Honjo, Conqueror of Manchuria, stopped en route at a mountain spa, and was literally mobbed by U. S. and British tourists who shoved, gasped and shrilled, "Please, General, please! Your autograph! Just one more?...
...vacation in Belgium. Immigration men tried to keep him out of the country because they could not understand how he was both a German and a Swiss citizen. Higher officials condoned the dual citizenship, took care that Mrs. Einstein's real "worry" had a happy time at Spa...
Upon French Lick, famed Indiana spa 42 mi. from the centre of U. S. population, converged last week 23 Governors of 23 States for their 23rd annual convention. Through the broad lobby of the big, buff French Lick Springs Hotel, set among wooded hills, they marched back & forth smoking, joshing, talking politics. They drank Pluto water ("If nature won't, Pluto will") at 55° direct from the spring -or piping hot at the hotel buffet. Many were the regretful comments on the absence of their friend, the late great Tom Taggart, Democratic boss of Indiana and millionaire proprietor...