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...Years earlier he had bought two miles of Palm Beach waterfront, built the first house in Palm Beach, an immensity named the Wigwam, out of compliment to his Tammany antecedents. As he grew older and more feeble, the Crokers left Palm Beach, spent most of their time in County Dublin. In 1922. while the children of his first marriage were trying desperately to have him declared mentally unfit. ex-Boss Croker died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Widow's Wigwam | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

...happened to be scandalously rich old-time Tammany Boss Richard Wellstead Croker the press was convulsed with excitement. In 1901 Tammany had been soundly beaten by Fusion Candidate Seth Low. Boss Croker had gone back to his native Ireland to buy a huge estate in County Dublin with the proceeds of years of "honest Tammany graft." He then launched on a racing career, which reached its peak when bluff Edward VII refused to ask him to a Derby dinner when Croker's horse Orby won the 1907 Derby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Widow's Wigwam | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

...West Virginia; Gordon E. Jones, Olympia, Washington; Charles W. Hayden, Kansas City, Missouri; Ferdinand F. McAllister, Brooklyn, New York; John E. Adams, Berkeley, California; Samuel E. Elmore Jr., Spindale, North Carolina; Henry B. Ruley, Louisville, Kentucky; Robert P. Tucker, Charleston, South Carolina; Lucio E. Gatto, Cambridge,; Charles H. Horndon, Dublin, Texas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $10,025 In Fellowships Go To 41 Students of Medicine | 10/13/1937 | See Source »

Katie Roche (by Teresa Deevy; Abbey Theatre Players, producers). While a second-string company keeps Dublin audiences happy and the Irish Free State satisfied that its subsidy is not being wasted, the renowned Abbey Theatre Players last week began an extended season in the U. S. Less sanctified since the competitive rise of the lively Dublin Gate Theatre, the Abbey is still a criterion for rounded ensemble playing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 11, 1937 | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

...flirt with illusions of grandeur. Rejecting Yokel Michael (Arthur Shields), she marries middleaged, blue-blooded Bachelor Stanislaus Gregg (F. J. McCormick). Crisis of this ill-matched marriage comes when Stanislaus finds artless Katie and naive Michael together, decides to transfer his wife permanently to the less tempting air of Dublin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 11, 1937 | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

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