Real Lace (43 page)

Sons of St Tammany,
29
–
30
;
see
Tammany Hall

Southampton, Long Island,
5
,
40
,
45
–
52
,
228
,
232
; McDonnell-Ford wedding,
97
–
98
; McDonnell home,
5
,
45
–
46
,
95
,
255
,
272

Sowbelly Gulch, Colo.,
143
–
144

Speilman, Francis Cardinal,
229
,
231
,
248
,
294
; and Brady family,
190
–
192
,
197
–
198
; and Cardinal Pacelli's visit to U.S.,
193
–
196
; and Lester Cuddihy,
91
–
92
; in Rome,
190
–
191

Spencer-Churchill, Lord Charles,
257

Sperry & Hutchinson Building, New York,
249

Spring Lake, N.J.,
232

Spur (horse),
81

Stanchfield and Levy,
164

Stanford, Leland,
135

Stapleton, Maureen,
277

Star of the East Diamond,
145

Staten Island, Quarantine Station,
18
–
19

Sting (horse),
81

Stock Exchange, New York,
181
,
201
,
258
–
259
,
269
; and McDonnell & Company failure,
4
,
264
,
270
,
275
,
276
; Ryan expelled from,
167
–
168
; and Ryan's Stutz Motor Company operations,
160
–
167

Stock market: bull and bear operators,
159
; Crash, 1929,
177
,
180
; 1920 recession,
167
–
168
; 1969–1970 decline,
4
; short selling.
159
–
164
; small investors,
177

Stock rights trading,
56
–
58

Stotesbuty, Mrs. Edward T.,
50

Strauss, Lewis L.,
202
–
206

Stroheim, Erich Von,
182
–
183

Strontium
90
,
205

Stutz Bearcat,
159
,
163
,
174

Stutz Motor Company,
159
–
166
,
169
,
174

Sullivan, Annie,
278

Sullivan, Barry,
277

Sullivan, Catherine McDonnell (Mrs. Raymond Peter Sullivan),
96
,
99

Sullivan, Ed,
278

Sullivan, Frank,
278

Sullivan, John L.,
277

Sullivan, Louis,
278

Sullivan, Mark,
278

Sullivan, Raymond Peter,
96
,
99

Summerhill School,
296
,
297

Supreme Court, U.S.,
128

Sutro, Adolph,
135

Stewart, Janet Newbold (Mrs. William Rhinelander Stewart),
172

Swansea, Gloria,
182
–
184

Taft, William Howard,
76
,
110

Tammany Hall,
29
–
30
,
34
,
82
,
280

Taylor, Laurette,
277

Teapot Dome, Wyo., oil lands, no,
113
,
117
,
118
,
122
,
128
,
147

Thalberg, Irving,
183

Thomas, Danny,
245

Time
,
238
;
Literary Digest
and,
72
,
74

Tobacco industry,
152

Toohey, John Peter,
278

Travers, Genevieve Butler (Mrs. Walter E. Travers),
247

Trespasser, The
(film),
183

Triumph
,
218

Troy City Railway,
24

Troy Electric Light Company,
24

Truman, Harry S.,
45
,
202

Tufts family,
233

Twombly, Hamilton McKeon,
32

Union Tobacco Company,
152

United Mine Workers of America,
202

Urbana, III.,
76

Uzès, Duke d',
238

Uzielli, Anne Ford (Mrs. Giancarlo Uzielli),
6
,
257
,
285

Uzielli, Giancarlo,
6
,
285

Vanderbilt, Alfred Gwyane,
6
,
154
,
207
,
284

Vanderbilt, Alfred Gwynne, Jr.,
286

Vanderbilt, Heidi (Mrs. Jones Harris),
285

Vanderbilt, Jean Harvey (Mrs. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt),
284

Vanderbilt, Jeanne Murray (Mrs. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt),
6
,
32
,
94
,
96
,
207
,
223
–
224
,
239
,
284
–
285
,
291

Vanderbilt, John J., Judge,
31

Vanderbilt, Virginia Fair (Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt),
142

Van Slooten, William,
32
,
34

Vatican, U.S. diplomatic representation,
193
,
195
,
198

Veracruz,
213

Victoria, Queen of Spain,
195

Vidal, Gore,
218

Vietnam, Knights of Malta in,
246

Villa, Pancho,
82

Virginia City, Nev.,
135
,
136
,
138
,
140

Von Stroheim, Erich,
182
–
183

Wagnalls, Adam Willis,
63
,
64

Wall Street Journal
,
263
,
264

Walsh, Carrie Bell Read (Mrs. Thomas Walsh),
143
,
144
,
146

Walsh, Evalyn,
see
McLean, Evalyn Walsh

Walsh, Thomas,
143
–
145
,
147

Walsh, Thomas J., Senator,
118
–
121

Walsh, Vinson,
144
,
148

Warburg family,
59
,
103

Ward, William L.,
82

Washington
Post
,
146
,
147

Waterford, Lucille,
173

Water Mill, Long Island,
46
,
71
,
87
–
88
,
93

“Water Mill Farms,”
266
–
267

Water, Dixon,
136

Western Union,
139

Whalen, Grover,
277

Whalen, Richard J.,
179
;
The Founding Father
,
186

What a Widow!
(film),
183

White, William Allen,
116

Whitney, William C,
151
–
153

Whidener, J. &,
82

Widener, Peter A. B.,
151
,
152

Wilton, Charles,
205

Wilson, Woodrow,
44
,
111
,
112
,
213
;
Literary Digest
polls on,
65
–
66

Winbush, Julian,
148

Winchell, Walter,
96
,
184

Windham Mountain Club, N.Y.,
233
–
234
,
239

Windsor, Duchess of,
94

Windsor, Duke of,
94
; as Prince of Wales,
141
,
197

Windsor Hotel, New York,
76

Woodham-Smith, Cecil,
17
,
23
,
28

Woods (Macauley's secretary),
199

Wyatt, Mrs. Christopher Billopp,
229

Wyatt, Jane,
229

Wyatt family,
238

Wynne, Father,
70

Yale Corporation,
232

Yale Engineering School,
92

Yale University,
95
,
239
,
281

Yellow Cab Company,
179

Yeats, William Butter,
26
,
28

Yon, Pietro,
197

Young, Loretta,
107

Young, Owen D.,
179

About the Author

Stephen Birmingham is an American author of more than thirty books. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1932, he graduated from Williams College in 1953 and taught writing at the University of Cincinnati. Birmingham's work focuses on the upper class in America. He's written about the African American elite in
Certain People
and prominent Jewish society in
Our Crowd: The Great Jewish Families of New York
,
The Grandees: The Story of America's Sephardic Elite
, and
The Rest of Us: The Rise of America's Eastern European Jews
. His work also encompasses several novels including
The Auerbach Will
,
The LeBaron Secret
,
Shades of Fortune
, and
The Rothman Scandal
, and other non-fiction titles such as
California Rich
,
The Grandes Dames
, and
Life at the Dakota: New York's Most Unusual Address
. Birmingham lives in southwest Ohio.

All rights reserved, including without limitation the right to reproduce this ebook or any portion thereof in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of the publisher.

Copyright © 1973 by Stephen Birmingham

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ISBN: 978-1-5040-2630-7

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