Word: southampton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ambassador to Great Britain, he was followed in Herbert Hoover's Cabinet by his able assistant, Ogden Livingston Mills. This week, Andrew Mellon was followed by his junior again. Not quite six weeks after "the greatest Secretary of the Treasury since Alexander Hamilton" died of old age in Southampton, L. I, Ogden Mills, 53, died of heart failure in Manhattan...
Farewell Again (London Film) expertly applies the Grand Hotel idea to a British troopship. The 23rd Royal Lancers, homeward bound on H. M. S. Somersetshire after five years in India, are informed by wireless that they are to have but six hours ashore in Southampton, must then push off again for patrol duty in the Near East (''Sorry men, but if we're going to own an empire, we've got to pay for it"). Well-managed cameras bustle about sketching, vignetting, peering into lives affected poignantly, happily, comically, by this upsetting circumstance, bring each little...
Last week, in Southampton, L. I., Andrew William Mellon, long one of his country's richest men, Secretary of the Treasury from 1921 to 1932, died of uremia, broncho-pneumonia...
Last week 80-year-old James McIntyre (Alexander Hambletonian of The Ham Tree) died at his home near Southampton, L. I. As he lay dying he wondered querulously why his old partner Tom Heath (Hennery Jones of their act) had failed to send his usual telegram of birthday greeting. But old Tom Heath, 84, a few miles away at Setauket, was beyond such amenities. He has been paralyzed since last year...
...Robert Riggs, 19-year-old Californian: the 47th annual Meadow Club tennis tournament ; by default, when his final-round opponent, Japanese Champion Jiro Yamagishi, quit because of a strained shoulder; at Southampton, L. I. For Riggs it was the third match he had won by default in eight days, having so defeated onetime Wimbledon Champion Sidney Wood in the quarter-finals two days before and onetime U. S. Champion Wilmer Allison in the final of the Seabright tournament week before...