Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...standbys as baked beans, meat loaf, prune pudding and oatmeal. Last spring she entertained Mrs. Vincent Astor and some other ladies with a White House luncheon of which the main course was a soup made of spinach, dandelion greens and bacon grease-a dish reputedly in great favor with Andrew Jackson. She asked her guests afterwards if they did not think such a meal sufficient for midday. Some of the ladies politely hinted that they did not. Beaming as brightly as ever, Mrs. Roosevelt replied that she was just experimenting and wanted to find out. Recent dinner guests...
...Granite Falls, Minn. Andrew John Volstead received newshawks with his feet on a rolltop desk in his law office. "Anything I might say could do nobody any good," he said. "All it would do would be just to bring ridicule upon me. If I were to say that Prohibition had been a mistake, there would be an awful uproar...
...Died. Andrew Rattray, 51, professional big game hunter and zebra farmer, son-in-law of Viscount Furness; after an operation; in Nairobi, British East Africa...
...Andrew William Mellon was the Cabinet hero of the Harding-Coolidge-Hoover era William Hartman Woodin, cheery but inactive, has not yet qualified for a similar role in the Roosevelt era. Nor have the new heads of the State, Justice, War, Navy Agriculture, Commerce or Interior departments yet achieved historic stature. The first woman Secretary of Labor, Frances Perkins (Wilson) has been receiving quiet plaudits ever since her first hour in office as the most human, humane and intelligent incumbent since her post was founded in 1913. But the first phrase of praise with resonance for the ages was bestowed...
...diptych is well known. It was discovered in Spain by the Russian Ambassador Dmitri Pavlovitch Tatischev, was bequeathed by him to Tsar Nicholas I, who placed it in the Hermitage Museum in 1845. The same agent, President Charles R. Henschel of Knoedler & Co. who acquired the "Annunciation," reputedly for Andrew Mellon, finally after years of secret conferences in London, Paris, Berlin closed the Metropolitan's diptych deal. What he paid neither the Metropolitan, Knoedler & Co. nor the Soviet Government would say. Three hundred years ago the acquisition of such treasure would have been just cause for a three...