Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary Marvin Mclntyre secured the services of Rear Admiral Gary T. Grayson, who served in the same capacity in 1933, to act as Chairman of the Inaugural Committee, and Mrs. Roosevelt announced that for the inauguration she would undoubtedly wear her black broadtail. Said she: "I have had the coat three years, but it is perfectly good and I expect to wear it a good many years after this. I should not dream of getting...
...already spent in the first five months of the fiscal year and not enough remains to last through January, much less to July. This is due to politics, which kept the Relief appropriation low so as to make a good showing before election; to an Act of God, Drought, which put 325,000 extras on the Relief rolls; and to a miscalculation of Man. As industry increased its payrolls the WPA payrolls did not decrease proportionately. The cut as Mr. Williams announced it called for a reduction of WPA's expenditures from $165,000,090 in November...
...nevertheless a Privy Councilor for life and last week was out in full regalia with the 300-odd other Privy Councilors in the Throne Room of St. James's Palace to hear King George VI read his accession address: "... I take up the heavy task. . . . My first act ... to confer on [Edward] a dukedom. . . . He will henceforth be known as His Royal Highness, the Duke of Windsor. ... I declare to you my adherence to the strict principles of constitutional government and my resolve to work...
Dignity, like the Imperial mantle which is placed upon England's King at his Coronation, clothed Edward VIII and his every act last week after the decision of His Majesty to abdicate and become not "Mr. Windsor" but Prince Edward, newly created Duke of Windsor, and still Knight of the Most Ancient & Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Knight of the Most Illustrious Order of St. Patrick, Knight Grand Commander of the Most Exalted Star of India, Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, Grand Master of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael & St. George, Grand Master...
This entertainment consisted of several songs, various games, and piano and banjo playing by several members of the Instrumental Club. The Massachusetts General Hospital lent the Committee a lust pig for a magician's act. Following this, refreshments of ice cream and cake were served...