Word: wigwam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crane's in Newark was being torn down; Malone got it a reprieve until December. Philip Freneau's near Matawan, N. J. is for sale: $35,000 with his grave; $29,000 without it. Most rousing hospitality awaits the Pilgrim at Joaquin Miller's cabin, The Wigwam, outside Oakland, Calif. There the poet's ardent daughter, Juanita, has set up his room just as it used to be, quill pen, half-smoked cigar, demijohn and, in the old bed, under the same old patchwork quilt, a blackened bust of the old boy wearing his red, tasseled...
...Wolfe pack lives mostly on aristocratic East Broad Street, pays little attention to Columbus society. Fifteen miles outside the city is the famed "Wigwam," which the Wolfes also share in common- a big wooded tract dotted with rustic lodges, a reception hall, movie theatre, swimming pool. Here Wolfes and their families gather in complete privacy for wholesome fun. Parties at the Wigwam sometimes run to several hundred guests. Herbert Hoover has been there often; so have Alf Landon, Frank Knox, Michigan's Senator Vandenberg...
...manager for the racket's late boss, Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer, told how charges for "Pop," averaging $750 a week which appeared on the racket's books, were payments to Jimmy Hines,-* said that in addition the racket put up $32,000 to warm the Tammany political wigwam in the city campaign of 1933. Under cross-examination Witness Weinberg admitted he had been a burglar, a gangster, gunman, perjurer, but he denied that it was he who murdered Dutch Schultz. At one point. Defendant Hines, who had been keeping up his spirits by reading his fan mail...
...Dewey insisted that the State had no "star witness," but the highlight of his Wigwam party was expected to be Witness Dixie Davis, chief counsel for the racket. To squelch insinuations that Lawyer Davis had been blandished into turning State's evidence by permits to leave jail and visit his red-headed friend, Showgirl Hope Dare. District Attorney Dewey declared: "He got a change of clothes. . . . He had his clothes there. . . . There were two detectives and the mother of Miss Dare present, so that anybody who has been reveling in ideas that the District Attorney was conniving at adultery...
...lever for the uprooting of an institution that has become a symbol "for all that is crooked, slimy, unpatriotic, and sinister in politics in any machine ridden city." Starved of national and city patronage, riddled by internal discussion and confronted by a real District Attorney, some leaders of the Wigwam may soon turn the Bridge of Sighs into a Tam-many wailing wall...