Word: 65th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rockefeller Center's International Building. Arranged according to the artists' home States, some 700 paintings and 60 sculptures from 46 States, the District of Columbia and four territories hung on specially prepared walls of sea grass and plaster. For the preview dinner in Rockefeller Center's 65th story Rainbow Room, New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia rounded up a roomful of bigwigs, including New Jersey's Governor Harold Hoffman. Beefy Governor Hoffman promptly proceeded to put the show on the front pages by flooring with one blow a spindly Hearstling named Lou Wedemar who heckled...
...mile trip took nearly three hours. At the edge of New York City, 350 police took over from State Troopers. Behind 15 motorcycle policemen and a dozen cars filled with detectives in constant touch by radio with police headquarters, the President drove to his town house on East 65th Street through streets which had been cleared of all traffic for half an hour before his arrival. Although it was dinner hour on a rainy night, the city's heavy traffic was again disrupted in order to drive him from his town house down a deserted Fifth Avenue to Masonic...
...launch, the President did not wait to see the Harvard varsity beaten again in a race that was postponed one day because of rough water (see p. 52). Instead he returned to Hyde Park for a secluded weekend, went to Manhattan to have dinner at his house on East 65th Street, continued on to Washington to demand immediate enactment of his tax proposals...
...Richard Berry Harrison, life up to his 65th year was woefully thin. His parents were slaves who fled to freedom in Canada. He and five sisters and brothers were born in London, Ontario. Like their parents, his sisters and brothers never amounted to much. "And," says one Negro biographer, "de Lawd nearly missed...
...took them by surprise. Night before Mrs. Roosevelt had stood beside the President at the official, reception for the Supreme Court. Then she slipped away, caught a midnight train for Manhattan and at 9 o'clock in the morning, in the library of the Roosevelt house on East 65th Street gave her daughter in marriage to John Boettiger. A clerk from the Marriage License Bureau had brought a license to the house shortly after 8 a. m. There it was filled out by John Boettiger, 34, and Anna Roosevelt Dall, 28. Justice Frederic Kernochan, friend and fishing companion...