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...Early this week the President set out for Pulpit Harbor, Me., to board Manhattan Socialite Harrison Tweed's 56-ft. schooner Sewanna, lately rented by Son James, for a fortnight's cruise up the coast to Nova Scotia and back to Campobello Island. "I'm going to take a complete rest," the President told his Hyde Park neighbors last week, "except that I shall have to read 40 or 50 dispatches a day and sign a bucketful of official mail every few days. I'll have to do this unless, of course, I get lost...
...when he was Governor of New York, Franklin Delano Roosevelt suddenly found himself in need of a State Commissioner of Health. After surveying the field he called to Albany an aggressive, tweed) Marylander named Thomas Parran Jr. Dr. Parran at the time was an assistant Surgeon General of the U. S. Public Health Service. In 1933 Franklin Roosevelt went to Washington as President. There this year he again found himself in need of a health commissioner, this time for the entire nation, when Surgeon General Hugh Smith Gumming, 66, resigned. Last week President Roosevelt called Dr. Parran back to Washington...
Demolishing the old New York County Penitentiary on Welfare Island, wreckers uncovered traces of the large window which in 1874 embellished the cell of New York's notorious William Marcy ("Boss") Tweed...
...married Peter Cooper's only daughter, Sarah Amelia. Vastly successful in business, Abram Hewitt built the first U. S. open-hearth furnace, manufactured the first U. S. steel of commercial value, directed Cooper Union for 40 years as secretary of its board, helped smash Tammany's Boss Tweed and, as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, in 1876 led the fight to establish Samuel J. Tilden's claim to the Presidency. Abram Hewitt's career reached its climax in 1886 when, in a rousing personal victory, he beat Candidates Henry George and Theodore Roosevelt to become...
...minds about how or whether to take him, Dorothy proposed a trial trip to Paris together-purely platonic. As the train pulled out of London's Victoria Station, according to his invariable custom Bennett changed to his "traveling hat"- "a round affair of tweed with a soft brim, peculiarly endearing." Records Dorothy Cheston: "I remember that I felt curiously responsible, as though I were traveling with bullion." In Paris something happened that decided her heart: every morning Bennett would call for her, bearing a bunch of white flowers which he had bought at a stall on the corner...