Word: choses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President MacCracken is too "big" a man to pay any attention to what you did but I think you ought to know that I have recently been asked by members of the Alumnae Association why he chose such a picture as that for such a purpose. This criticism seems hardly fair to him. I knew that tabloids did things of that kind but had never expected it of a reputable magazine. As that copy of the magazine has already gone all over the U. S., may I ask that you print this letter over my signature which will reach...
...three months the biggest date on President Roosevelt's calendar has been Nov. 6. This week that day came and went and for the 74th time in its history the U. S. electorate chose another Congress (see p. 14). Automatically the next big day on the White House calendar became Jan. 3, when the new Congress sits for the first time...
North Dakota. Vindication was the issue?vindication of deposed Governor William Langer (TIME, July 18). Mrs. Lydia Cady Langer ran in her husband's place against Democrat Thomas Moodie. But North Dakota's farmers, for all their past devotion to William Langer, cast their ballots firmly against his wife, chose as their next Democratic Governor the onetime railroad brakeman who today edits the Williston Herald...
Miss Geraldine Farrar aus New York was the rage in Berlin from 1901 to 1906. One night she was invited to the Imperial Palace, commanded to wear either lavender or black. She chose her own costume ?white?but the Kaiser was interested. At the Metropolitan in Manhattan, where she made her debut in 1906, she continued to have her own way. As the goosegirl in Die Konigskinder she drove the property man to distraction by her successful insistence upon having live geese on the stage. She was the only Metropolitan prima donna ever to have her own permanent dressing...
...Which route shall we take," they shouted in one accord, but alas, none could agree, and they all picked out a different path to those historic grounds. One chose Plympton and then the Parkway, but that was being repaired, so that would never do. Then came a cry for Linden, but that too was up and they could not pass, what about Boylston, one of the crowd, a tackle, sang out, "oh, good," they cried in unison and so they all set out with light hearts and happy feet for Boylston, and then the Stadium, and all that lay behind...