Word: delano
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...children. Said Partner Lawson: "We put together the partnership in February 1933, and after a little more than a year we mutually decided we should dissolve. It just did not work as we had hoped." On the South portico of the White House the President's mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, surprised her son by presenting him with a portrait of herself wearing a black gown and a stole of sables. Present at the ceremony were only members of the household and the artist, Pole Tade Styka...
Died. John James Elaine, 58, thrice Governor of Wisconsin, U. S. Senator (1927-33); of pneumonia; in Boscobel, Wis. A Progressive Republican pupil of the late Robert Marion La Follette, John Elaine supported the Presidential campaigns of Woodrow Wilson (1912), Senator La Follette (1924). Alfred Emanuel Smith (1928), Franklin Delano Roosevelt. President Roosevelt appointed him to the board of Reconstruction Finance Corp., formation of which he had opposed under President Hoover...
Died. Thomas Martin Farley, 45, one-time sheriff of New York County; of coronary embolism following an appendectomy; in Manhattan. In 1932 New York's Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt removed Sheriff Farley from office after the Hofstadter-Seabury investigation into New York City's municipal affairs revealed he had banked more than $300,000 above his salary. Sheriff Farley claimed he earned the money before taking office, kept it in a "tin box," deposited it now & then...
When Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. returned from Europe last September, newsreel cameramen cornered him on deck. He ducked, grinned, protested: "No, honestly, I'm camera shy." When cameramen in a boat edged up to the shell in which Roosevelt Jr. was practicing with the Harvard freshman crew one week later, he did not grin. Barked...
...Lyle Hull who last spring was Mr. Stewart's bicycling companion in Bermuda; George St. George, young, round-faced, rosy-cheeked, English-bred member of Tuxedo's horsy set. Mrs. George St. George was the onetime Katharine Price Collier, stepsister of the President's cousin Warren Delano Robbins, U. S. Minister to Canada. The two exceptions to the socialite group were Dr. Leslie W. Heiter of Mobile, Ala., friend...