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Seventy-eight years ago Sara Delano was born on the west side of the Hudson near Newburgh, N. Y. Her father, Warren Delano II, was a wealthy China tea merchant. Her great-great-great-great-grandfather, Philip de Lannoy, landed at Plymouth, Mass., in 1621 aboard the Fortune. When Sara was eight, her mother took her and six brothers and sisters around the Horn on the clipper Surprise to Hongkong. The voyage lasted 110 days. Later there were trips to Paris, breathtaking glimpses of the Empress...
...Miami on Vincent Astor's sleek white Nourmahal. After his twelve-day fishing trip he was tanned, cheerful, energetic, quite out of touch with affairs of State. "I haven't really seen a newspaper since I left, except the Nassau paper yesterday,"* he told reporters who crowded aboard the yacht to greet him. After dinner the President-elect got into an open automobile with Miami's Mayor Gauthier and drove to Bay Front Park where some 20,000 cheering Floridians and visitors were gathered to see and hear him before he entrained for New York...
...Roosevelt paid a second visit to the hospital before starting for New York. Mayor Cermak and Mrs. Gill were holding their own. Perhaps they would not die after all. The President-elect urged the Mayor to "hurry up and get well in time to attend the inaugural." Later aboard his private car Mr. Roosevelt called newshawks about him, calmly gave them his version of what happened...
...share and they were given options on other big blocks at $12 to $15 a share. Insull Utility Investments opened on the Chicago Stock Exchange at $30 a share, hit $149 before the crash. But Insull Jr. stuck to his story that all this stock was still aboard when the Insull ship went down. Insull Jr. was not asked how much they had salted away against disaster. He strengthened the impression that they lost all. Asked how many of the Insull companies paid him salaries, he said...
...distributed through Acme because Acme carried the photograph in its plane to Manhattan. The picture approaches in sensational spontaneity the picture that alert William Warneke made for the oldtime Evening World of New York's Mayor Gaynor within a few seconds of his being shot in the neck aboard a steamer bound for Europe...