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...next room; Hull and Welles in an early-morning call at the White House, the President propped against pillows, amid a litter of breakfast tray, morning papers, cables from abroad, wearing "a peculiar small cape of blue flannel trimmed and monogrammed with red braid, like an expensive summer horse-blanket...
Clothed under early New Deal blanket legislation with mighty authority over the air, FCC announced that limited commercial telecasting could begin on Sept. 1 -i. e., that advertising sponsors could pay program production costs, leave telecasters out of pocket only for their air time and technological expense...
...Secretary Stephen T. Early called in reporters for a word of friendly but wet-blanket advice "not to write yourself out on the end of a limb, or to attribute what you assume the President, Mr. Hull and Mr. Welles are discussing to any allegedly authorized or unimpeachable or reliable sources or to friends close to the President or to the Secretary of State or to the Under Secretary of State; that neither the President, nor the Secretary of State nor the Under Secretary of State will have any word to say to the press or to any of their...
Then came the terms, and despair. The parties were canceled, the laughter ceased. A horrible realization fell like a blanket of wet snow on the three countries: not only was Finland defeated; her neighbors were threatened within an inch of their lives...
Then she tried to get out and walk home, in the middle of Back Bay. However, after she had gone scarcely three blocks, and just before two squad cars of Boston Police arrived on the scene, she was wrapped in a blanket and hustled...