Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about a 2-to-1 vote, Mr. Hopkins dived at his new job with all speed. He announced he would retain "Uncle Dan" Roper's impressive Business Advisory Council, most of whose many members are "close personal friends." He asked his specially close friend, W. Averell Harriman, board chairman of the Union Pacific Railroad Co. and also of the Advisory Council, to come to Washington as soon as convenient. He hired able Political Correspondent Victor Sholis of the Chicago Times to handle the press relations of what will now be the most conspicuous, instead of the most obscure, Roosevelt...
...replace Harry Hopkins at the head of WPA, the President elevated Colonel Francis Clark ("Pinky") Harrington, whose political coloration is neutral to the point that he boasts of never having voted (see p. 8). To replace Miss Mary Dewson, 64, resigning from the Social Security Board because of physical exhaustion, the President named Mrs. Ellen S. Woodward, fortyish, director of women's and professional activities...
...bedside such influential Democratic physicians as John Nance Garner, South Carolina's Jimmy Byrnes, Virginia's Harry Flood Byrd. In Boston last month Senator Byrd expounded his worries about spending which he blamed on the "crackpot" .theories of Marriner Stoddard Eccles, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. This week Chairman Eccles, a banker who favors pump-priming within limits, answered by a letter which he gave to the press, lecturing Critic Byrd and the nation on "the pertinent facts" about the Budget, Taxes, Debt...
...precedent for the Fair builders was San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915, a glittering tour de jorce by the smartest Beaux-Arts architects of the day. Held to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal. it appropriately linked East Coast and West Coast on its board of architects. Tenderly remembered in San Francisco, the Panama-Pacific Exposition had no influence for the good on U. S. architecture...
...Francisco's present exposition, subtitled "A Pageant of the Pacific," the board of architects was an all-Western team. Chairman was George William Kel-ham, who had also been chief architect for the 1915 show. When he died two years ago he was succeeded by Arthur Brown Jr., another Panama-Pacific architect. Outstanding characteristic of the rest of the Fair architects, as of the exposition they designed, was their collaborative harmony. Fellow members of the Bohemian Club, august sanctuary of San Francisco tradition, most of them shared a mellow view of architecture and were damned if they would kill...