Word: basement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ramps will replace steps at the side door of the executive offices leading to the White House and in the east end of the second-floor hall leading to the Lincoln Study. Also under consideration was the construction of a small warm-water swimming pool in the White House basement, similar to the one Mr. Roosevelt had in the Executive Mansion conservatory at Albany, where he took regular underwater leg exercises between trips to Warm Springs. ¶ In December 1929, President Hoover, v.ith the aid of $500,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation, appointed a Research Committee on Social Trends "with...
...President-elect Roosevelt hobbled out of the White House elevator from the basement...
Allow me to call your attention to the enclosed clipping from TIME, Dec 5, in which President elect Roosevelt's entrance to conference with President Hoover is described as follows: "President-elect Roosevelt hobbled out of the White House elevator from the basement and turned to the left...
...right away. The fire's down in the basement...
...Merry-Go-Round) ; a radical spectator's impressions of the four Presidential campaign rallies in Madison Square Garden by John Dos Passes; a photograph of society girls feeding sugar to horses in a hotel ballroom, contrasted with one of Chicago relief workers feeding soup to jobless in a basement...