Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Country clubs were torn into factions, Yalemen turned against Harvardmen. Vanderbilts against Harrimans, horsemen against non-horsemen. Manhasset against Sagamore Hill in the ist Congressional District of New York last week. Even the several hundred thousand plain people inhabiting Long Island were aware that an unusual contest was being waged between curly-headed, soft-eyed Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny"') Whitney* and big. bluff Robert Low Bacon for the latter's seat in Congress. The opponents handled their campaigns with kid rather than loaded gloves, but each bestirred himself energetically. Democrat Whitney, his beauteous second wife, three station wagons, a touring...
...last week at the Cleveland Clinic undergoing a minor operation) intended buying the Cleveland News, Republican evening paper owned by Daniel. Carl & Mark Hanna, grandsons of the late great President-maker who founded it as a political mouthpiece. Reports lately got about concerning a merger between the News and Plain Dealer, owned by socialite descendants of the late Liberty E. Holden. prospector, hotelman and publisher. Last week the merger rumors were confirmed by the formation of Forest City* Publishing Co., capitalized...
...successfully campaigned on horseback for a county judgeship. A horse & buggy carried him around on his winning canvass for the House of Representatives in 1912. Though he had risen measurably from his hillbilly background, there was about him nothing of the traditional "Kentucky colonel.'' He remained a plain simple man with no pretense of aristocracy...
...Plain Clothes Men Sent...
Early in the day two plain-clothes men were detailed from the Brattle Square station to watch the President's house and observe all persons entering the Yard. As soon as he learned of the bombing, C. R. Apted '06, superintendent of caretakers, also sent a guard of special detectives to guard the side of the President's house fronting upon the Yard...