Word: tilley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt its first annual gold medal for being the "most outstanding Mayflower descendant residing in New York in 1933." More famed for his Dutch ancestry, the President can claim Mayflower descent in 16 lines from no less than ten passengers: Richard Warren, Francis Cook, John Cook, Mr. & Mrs. John Tilley and Elizabeth Tilley, John Howland, Mr. & Mrs. Isaac Allerton and Mary Allerton...
...Irvin, mellow, good-natured, immune to the deliberate insanity of the regular staff, drew the first New Yorker cover ("Mr. Eustace Tilley" in a high hat, high stock, with a monocle up to a butterfly), passes on every drawing the magazine uses, scanning some 1,000 pictures every Tuesday afternoon. Scale of prices to artists: $10 for a one-column spot without caption, $200 and up for a full page or cover...
...discharge card did not give him as high a rating as he thought he deserved. Later he went abroad again, acquired a French aviation pilot's license, returned to train at Roosevelt Field. In 1933 Rob ert Gordon Switz married a quiet intelligent Vassar girl named Marjorie Tilley. Soon they went abroad again. Aviator Switz representing a U. S. aviation instrument company. Said J. N. A. Van Ven Bonwhuizsen, president of the MacNeil Instrument Co. : "Mr. Switz was our representative in Europe, but he never made any sales." In Europe the Switzes traveled extensively and lived very quietly, registering...