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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well out to sea aboard the Houston before Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, Marion Dickerman (Todhunter School) and Nancy Cook (Val-Kill furniture) rolled out of Washington on the four wheels of the First Lady's tan Buick coupe. On an "off the record'' vacation they were setting out to add more thousands to 35,000 miles the President's wife has travelled since March 4, 1933. First they scuttled westward into the mountains of West Virginia to inspect the work being done by the American Friends' Service Committee of Philadelphia among half starved children of mine families. The rich proceeds...
...greatest evils from which a country can suffer are foreign control and Communism," His Majesty has said, only to add darkly: "If Persia had to choose between the two I should be the first to put myself at the head of a Communist army...
...years ago. Heading 20 other Princeton experts, none of whom missed a class during their four months in public service, he whipped out a 125,000-word "Princeton Plan" of governmental reorganization which showed New Jersey's rulers how by judicious savings and new revenues they could add $14,000,000 to the State's income (TIME. July 3). The State's Press swept off its hat and talked of Dodds for Governor. "Nothing," says Harold Willis Dodds with this record behind him and Princeton's presidency in hand, "has ever happened to me." Almost...
Another incident to add to the Lowell tradition la told of the President Emeritus in connection, with his deafness. After the service at a certain church he went up to the minister and apologized for not being able to come oftener but that he didn't hear very well. Whereupon the minister suggested that he sit in a pew in which an acousticon had been installed, "Oh, no, no," President Lowell replied, "it's nothing physical, It's nothing physical...
About a year ago he deviated a bit from his usual "hot" numbers and varied his program with such "smooth" selections as his popular "Moon Glow." This was done to add rather more respectability and finesse to his program, as well as cater to audiences other than those composed of adolescents...