Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When this handsomely engraved official invitation from the Inaugural Committee's Chairman Gary T. Grayson turned up on his desk one day last week, President Roosevelt let out a roar of delight, seized a pen, scrawled across the bottom a note to Chief W. E. Rockwell of the White House Social Bureau: "Please regret this invitation. I will be too busy...
With another roar, the President again took pen in hand, squiggled across the bottom a note to Rear Admiral Grayson: "I have re-arranged my engagements & work & think I may be able to go. Will know definitely...
...Jesse Jones, self-made First Citizen of Texas, went to Washington in February 1932 to be a Democratic director of Herbert Hoover's Reconstruction Finance Corp. Under pinchpenny Chairman Atlee Pomerene, RFC dwindled in power and prestige until by March 1933 it had hit bottom. Two months later Jesse Jones took over as chairman and RFC's great days began. He conducted himself and his huge money-lending business so well, with such level-headed liberalism, that it became easily the public's favorite New Deal agency, and he perhaps Washington's favorite administrator. Just...
...Administration. He plans to absorb 100 commissions, bureaus, and agencies into twelve departments, including two new cabinet posts, so that he may keep his finger on all with greater ease. The White House management will be enlarged by six executive assistants, with "a passion for anonymity"; from top to bottom federal personnel will go under civil service. All these suggestions tend to center power in the President, as the channels of authority to the twelve departments will be cleared of every obstacle and direct responsibility to the White House emphasized. To counteract this tendency, Mr. Roosevelt proposes that Congress make...
Major astronomical problems for the coming year, as explained by the Harvard Observatory, the clearing house for all information on the stars in the western hemisphere, include the study of the bottom star of the "W" in the Cassiopeia which is expected to explode at any time...