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...Hotel given jointly by all members of the Cabinet, in lieu of ten separate dinners held in other years. All ten members of the Cabinet, nine of their spouses (only absent spouse: Paul Wilson, husband of Madam Secretary Perkins), the Vice President, the Speaker, the Budget Director, Mrs. Curtis Dall, Gracie Hall Roosevelt (brother of Mrs. Roosevelt), Frederic A. Delano (uncle of the President) and all the White House secretaries were present...
Last November, the winter edition of the New York Social Register gave the address of Mr. & Mrs. Curtis B. Dall as No. 49 E. 65th St., the President's town house. Last week the Social Register issued a "Dilatory Domicile" supplement of new addresses, gave for Mr. Dall: "Panache," Sleepy Hollow Rd., North Tarrytown, N. Y.; gave for Mrs. Dall, The White House, Washington, D. C. Son-in-law Dall was last a White House visitor last April...
...light to go to sleep he saw nine socks and stockings hanging over his big bedroom fireplace: his own, his mother's, his wife's, his Aunt Dora Forbes's, his daughter's, Son John's, Son Franklin's, Granddaughter "Sistie" Dalls, Grandson "Buzzie" Dall's. Next morning very early the President was awakened by his grandchildren, another Roosevelt tradition dictating that the grownups must supervise the opening of all packages. The family tree, set up in the second floor hall, was decorated with real candles because Mr. Roosevelt dislikes the new-fangled...
...Boston's South Station, flaxen-haired Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Dall boarded a Pullman for Washington, gave the conductor a lower-berth ticket. Said he: "The President's daughter can't ride in an ordinary lower berth. We have engaged the drawing room for you." Said she: 'I've $4.53 here in my purse and that's all. If you want to give me a drawing room for that I'm perfectly satisfied." She slept in the lower berth...
...whistle." A White House invitation brought John J. Raskob and Editor Smith, who has sharply criticized the Administration in his New Outlook, to the executive mansion for tea. There they met U. S. Ambassador-at-Large Davis, who had come to Washington to talk disarmament with the President, Mrs. Dall and her "Sistie" and "Buzzie." Greeted by the President as "Al," Editor Smith was in high spirits. He stalked about, gesticulating like an actor, acting out funny stories while other guests roared with laughter.* After 30 minutes he stopped at another teaparty of Mrs. Roosevelt's on the floor...