Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elder statesman on government finance and his first choice for Secretary of the Treasury. Virginia's Senator Carter Glass. He it was who wrote the 1932 platform plank pledging the Democracy to a "sound currency at all hazards." During the campaign he arose from a sick-bed to deliver a deadly attack upon Herbert Hoover's fiscal program which won him 5,000 messages of congratulation. He turned down the Treasury portfolio because he thought he could be of more service to the new President in the Senate. If he had accepted that post March 4, he would...
...frosty morning of Jan. 13, 1932 the hard-riding, fox-hunting socialites of Loudoun County, Va. awoke to find murder in their midst. Sometime during the night Agnes Boeing Ilsley, widow of a well- to-do Wisconsin banker, had been brutally done to death in bed at her house in Middleburg. Also killed was her elderly white maid Mina Buckner. A butcher with a meat cleaver could not have done a gorier job. Nothing was stolen...
...cold in the head and a slight sore throat kept President Roosevelt indoors the beginning of last week. It was not bad enough for him to go to bed or call in a doctor but he did spend two days away from his. executive office and get a prescription refilled at the Naval Hospital. He continued to transact public business in the Oval Room on the second floor of the White House which with books, easy chairs and marine prints he has fixed up as a study. Thither one noon last week he summoned the Press, 100 correspondents strong...
...treasury of Art that brings the value of their new-found home to $15,000,000: a Great Hall, where 150 trenchermen may dine on 16th Century refectory boards beneath the festal banners of Siena; six Gobelin tapestries which cost $575,000; carved ancient choir stalls; the bed of the great Richelieu for guests; $8,000 vases; gold dinner plates and paper napkins; a ping-pong table of medieval wood; a lavish theatre, where each night is shown the latest talking picture film, very likely flown that day from Hollywood; and 150 men and women menials to tend the comfort...
...Writer Gilbert Seldes' Daisy, Lawyer Walter Richmond Herrick's Tiddles and several other pets vanished in quick succession it began to look as though there were a gatophobe in the neighborhood. Peter Herrick, 10, whose favorite pet Tiddles had been for some seven years, took to his bed with a fever, would not be comforted...