Word: basement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through the interest of friends of the Association, according to Peregrine White '33, president, the lunchroom in the basement of Brooks House has been redecorated with foreign railroad posters, wall lampshades and new curtains, selected to harmonize with the table decorations. Within a few days, a cork bulletin board will be in place, to serve as the center of announcements as to athletics and meetings. Under the supervision of E. S. Amazeen sGB, Graduate Secretary of the Association, a sandwich concession has been grant- ed to two undergraduates, who will provide sandwiches priced downwards from five cents for the commuting...
...treatment of the commuting students, a definite step has finally been taken to make their lot easier. It was announced yesterday that eleven members of the faculty had offered to meet the commuters every day in Phillips Brooks House; sandwiches and other modest edibles may be purchased in the basement of the building, where the meetings will take place, and the room has been decorated so as to make it a pleasant refuge. Officers are to be elected from the body of the men, to care for the affairs of the group, and it is hoped that a smoothly functioning...
...Harry Emerson Fosdick officially denied a widespread Canadian rumor that the basement of his Riverside Church (Manhattan) had been equipped with a bar to be operated as soon as Prohibition was repealed...
...White House, with the orchids on her sealskin coat bobbing in the morning breeze, walked Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt to inspect her home after March 4. Mrs. Hoover received her in the Green Room. From there they went on a complete tour of the White House from attic to basement. Mrs. Hoover pointed out the furniture that was private property. In the cellar they saw expert Army packers crating up things for shipment to Palo Alto aboard the naval transport Henderson from Norfolk. Each crate bore big black letters: "Mrs. Herbert Hoover, Stanford University. In care Twelfth Naval District...
...been revealed at the Student Employment Office in the basement of University Hall that during the first three months, or up to January 1, 1933. 1042 men have applied for assistance in getting jobs, as against 1049 men who applied within this time last year. As yet it has not been determined from loose records how much assistance has actually been received...