Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week to move most of the White House office staff to Poughkeepsie, N. Y. for August when President Roosevelt takes the rest of his vacation at nearby Hyde Park. Around his estate the President will drive not a General Motors' Pontiac roadster, as reported, but a Chrysler-built De Soto. A "special job," this roadster was so contrived that it may be entirely operated by hand. Before his election Mr. Roosevelt had a Ford roadster equipped with hand gadgets for brake and clutch...
...Ickes married Anna Wilmarth Thompson who had divorced Professor James Westfall Thompson. By her first marriage she had two children, Anna and Wilmarth, and by her second two more, Raymond and Robert. Mrs. Ickes had money from her father who was in the gas light fixture business. The family built a house on a six-acre lot in Winnetka and named it "Thorncroft." In the backyard Mr. Ickes who did not have to practice his profession too hard began growing dahlias. Their development into prize-winning strains became a passion with him matched only by his interest in stamp collecting...
...London last week Sweden's pert, petite Princess Ingrid thought she would have a look at the World Monetary & Economic Conference. She went to the brand new white stone edifice with imposing classic columns which was built as London's Geological Museum but converted just before completion to house the Conference (TIME, June 19). Entering incognito, Her Royal Highness poked about. She found most of the committee rooms empty, a few bored statesmen arguing in others. Taken in tow by a Conference doorman she was led to what is eventually to be the Museum's Great Hall...
...intuitive knack of nipping revolutions, calls his regime pleasantly a "Dictatorship without a Dictator." Last July the Professor, long Finance Minister, was promoted to Premier. Together he and President Carmona have issued many queer but wise decrees. In more prosperous times they clapped terrific taxes on Portuguese industry, built up a strong Treasury reserve. Recently finding that bus competition was injuring the State Railways, the President was prompted to issue a characteristic decree. Bus rates hereafter must be 15% more than the corresponding third-class railway fare...
Died. John Markle, 74, retired coal tycoon, Manhattan charitarian; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Starting with Pennsylvania anthracite properties inherited from his father, he bought up adjacent flooded mines, built the huge Jeddo Tunnel through three miles of rock to drain them. During the 1902 strike he fiercely called on President Roosevelt for Federal troops to subdue the United Mine Workers under John Mitchell. Disgruntled by the settlement of the strike, he gave up active supervision of his properties, moved to Manhattan. In 1907 he went totally blind, later recovered the use of his left eye. Good friend...