Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...started something that will be difficult, if not impossible, to stop. I should like to regard the addition of the reproductions of American paintings [TIME, Dec. 24] as a handsome seasonal gift. . . . The reproductions can, however, be considerably improved. Certainly, Marsh's New Gotham Burlesque was not done justice...
...Senator Gerald P. Nye, whose plans for enjoying the spotlight of the munitions investigation were upset by the President's announcement of still bigger plans to take the profit out of war (TIME, Dec. 24), called, by request, at the White House. He emerged mollified. Said he: "We had a very nice visit. . . . There is evidently not the slightest reason for the theory that the President wanted to end our investigation...
Catchiest tune of the evening was Cole Porter's "You're the Top" from the musical comedy Anything Goes (TIME. Dec. 3). So popular are Composer Porter's complicated lyrics that it is now considered the smart thing to know them all by heart, to rattle them off loudly wherever and whenever the tune is played. Excerpts...
Last week with the White House smelling of Christmas greens, Mrs. Roosevelt gave a "New Year's" dance (on Dec. 29), for Sons Franklin Jr. and John. The boys had driven home from Harvard for the holidays, had been arrested for speeding near New Haven. The guests of honor were Barbara Gushing, sister-in-law of Brother James Roosevelt, and Jean Martineau, niece of Warren Delano Robbins, U. S. Minister to Canada and the President's cousin. Some 300 youngsters eagerly responded to the First Lady's priceless invitation...
...plebiscite. After shouting for weeks "The swastika shall be kept flying!", these leaders, as zero hour approached, hauled down their own Nazi banners from German Front headquarters, did not even wait to be threatened by British, Italian, Dutch and Swedish troops of the League's Plebiscite Army (TIME, Dec. 31). As Commander-in-Chief of this Army, brisk Major General John E. S. Brind, D.S.O., had nothing but routine on his hands last week...