Word: daniels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington to U. S. 50 (the Defense Highway), twisted over the wet, slippery road, through piny woods and swamps on the way to Annapolis. With the President were Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, Chief of Naval Operations Harold Stark, White House Secretary "Pa" Watson, Naval Aide Daniel Callaghan, eight Secret Service men. As there was no precedent for Lord Halifax's stepping down from the Foreign Office to become Ambassador to the U. S., so there was no precedent for President Roosevelt's answering gesture of friendship in thus going out to greet an Ambassador, showing...
France's Henry IV, not a bad politician himself, put it neatly: "I wish that every peasant may have a chicken in his pot on Sundays." Governor Wilbert Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel of Texas, campaigning for re-election last summer, went way beyond Henry. When he spoke at a crossroads, the melodious and hospitable Governor often wound up: "Come down to dinner at the Governor's mansion some time. . . ." Last week 25,000 Texans took him up on the invitation, trooped to Austin to a barbecue after his inaugural. The inaugural itself was simple...
Vichy was snowbound. The worst blizzard in 50 years swept over the provisional capital of France, blocked the roads, tied up the railways. Snow fell on the Sévignè Pavilion, where Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, 84, awaited the coming of U. S. Ambassador William Daniel Leahy. It piled in high drifts in the nearby mountains of Auvergne; the U. S. charge d'affaires, driving to meet the new Ambassador, got only 20 miles from the capital. Still partially blacked out each night, cold, cheerless, waiting, Vichy lay paralyzed under the storm, a fitting symbol...
...ideas he taught spread fast. Within six months after Birkenhead there were 80,000 scouts in Britain. The movement spread abroad as well. In 1910 the Boy Scouts of America were organized in a combination of such existing groups as Ernest Thompson Seton's Indians and Daniel Carter Beard's Sons of Daniel Boone. At the Third World Jamboree in 1929 Sir Robert Baden-Powell, Chief of the Boy Scouts of the World, met with 50,000 scouts from 73 countries. That year raised to the peerage for his work, Baron Baden-Powell of Gilwell had built...
Cresswell's chief financial backer reportedly is his second cousin, Cummins Catherwood, a youthful Main Line socialite and financier. Son of the late Daniel B. C. Catherwood, tea merchant, banker, yachtsman, with his mother (now dead) and sister young Catherwood inherited $15,000,000 outright in 1929, and trust funds that even in lean 1932 paid him $1445,070. His wife, no pauper, is Virginia Tucker Kent (daughter of onetime Radioman Atwater Kent...