Word: oom
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Died. Anne Harriman Sands Rutherford Vanderbilt, 76, dowager socialite, daughter of Railroad Tycoon Oliver Harriman, follower of Cultist Oom the Omnipotent; of double pneumonia; in Manhattan. Her first husband, Sportsman Samuel Stevens Sands, was killed riding to hounds in 1889; her second, Racquet Champion Louis Morris Rutherford, died in 1892; her third, Yachtsman William Kissam Vanderbilt, died...
Died. James Francis Smith, New York City Police lieutenant, 56; of pneumonia and heart disease; in Manhattan. Biggest adventure: at 16, as a telegraph messenger boy, he traveled 12,000 miles during the Boer War to deliver a message of sympathy to President Oom Paul Kruger of the Transvaal Republic from 29,000 Philadelphia schoolboys...
...Congratulated Sol Bloom (Dem. N. Y.) on his 70th birthday. Representative Bloom, awakened in the morning by a flood of singing telegrams, objected to the way the telegraph girls sang: "Happy Birthday, Mr. Bloo-oom," made them change it to "Happy Birthday, dear Solly." That sounded better, said Songwriter Bloom...