Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Roosevelt had gone to bed early when he was suddenly awakened by a secretary at 10:45 p. m. and told of the California earthquake. At his order the U. S. turned its military and civil facilities to disaster relief...
...Louis McHenry Howe, Roosevelt Secretary-crony, took up permanent residence in the Lincoln Room at the White House. A small man, he refused to sleep in the 9-ft. Lincoln bed which was moved into another room...
...dawn broke, 2,000 bluejackets and Marines, under the orders of Admiral Richard Henry Leigh-who had been shaken out of his Long Beach apartment but went back to bed as the shocks continued-patrolled the Long Beach area. At Long Beach, Marines guarded prisoners taken from the tottering jail. Only one arrest for looting was reported. People were still scratching desperately in the rubble for their missing and dead...
...world gasped three years ago when blatant Huey Pierce Long, then Governor of Louisiana, hoisted himself out of bed in pajamas and received a full-dress courtesy call from the commander of the German cruiser Emden. In Veracruz, Mexico, never, never would Mayor Epigmenio Guzman be guilty of such a breach of etiquet. Last fortnight the British cruiser Norfolk dropped anchor in Veracruz bearing in her stern cabin none less than the Commander-in-Chief of Britain's America & West Indies Station, Vice-Admiral the Hon. Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax...
...touring S. S. Lafayette was held "up in Colon, Panama, quarantined for half an hour, waiting for New Mexico's U. S. Senator Bronson Cutting to get out of bed...