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...gangplank from the observation platform. Around him were hundreds of old friends and neighbors whom he saluted as "Tom" and "Joe" and '"Harry." A car sped him to Krum Elbow, the estate of his mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, who was on hand to greet her son. The Vincent Astors dropped in for luncheon and in the afternoon the President went swimming in his outdoor pool. Determined to be a country squire taking his ease, for the week-end at least, he refused to receive telephone calls even from members of his Cabinet...
...religion like the Egyptians, but sanitation and sentiment, which Christianity was obliged to salute as soon as the sensibilities of churchgoers objected to the smell of corporeal corruption within churches. The hearts of the Popes from Sixtus V (1590) to Benedict XV (1922) are in the church of Sts. Vincent & Anastasius in Rome...
They pledged themselves to "watch the polls [lest] the Wets put across any crooked counting of the votes" at forthcoming Repeal elections. They heard Pastor Norman Vincent Peale of Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Church deplore the fact that "a very high public official, who should represent in his personal attitude the sacred ideals of the people, begins his summer vacation in a sailing vessel on Sunday."* They learned from Mrs. Dora B. Whitney of Michigan that recitations of "The Face On The Barroom Floor'' effectively aided a Dry campaign. They passed a resolution asking "fairminded...
...sold the family castle to Vincent Bendix for $3,000,000. That aviation and auto accessory tycoon listed it in the telephone book as "The Bendix Galleries," after adding Rembrandts and Christys. He modernized the elevator, installed a barber's chair for his own use and gave many a loud party. Later he passed it on to a syndicate for the amount of the mortgage...
...Vincent ("Mad Dog") Coll was the kind of a gangster that big gangsters mortally fear. He was out to make his reputation as a killer, and he figured that the ratio of his own importance would increase with the importance of the criminals he killed. He had leaders like Owney Madden quite nervous until two men put the finger on him in a telephone booth last winter...