Word: derning
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From Congress last week a bill was dispatched to the White House to give Deserter Beryl McHam an honorable discharge and put him on the pension rolls. On the President's desk was a memorandum from Secretary Dern...
...heels of this dinner the President and Mrs. Roosevelt held their first state reception for the diplomatic corps. The President and First Lady (in cream brocade) greeted the Cabinet headed by Secretary of War and Mrs. Dern (pale grey satin)-Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins (black velvet) arrived late-and passed into the Blue Room to "receive." Instead of assembling on the stairs and marching counterclockwise (according to precedent) through the first floor, the guests started from the East Room, marched clockwise to the Blue Room. Head of the procession was Dean of the Diplomatic Corps Ahmet Muhtar, Turkish Ambassador...
Permanently pigeonholed last week was Secretary of War Dern's proposal to use $80,000,000 of public works funds to mechanize the Army, build more airplanes...
...emissary President Roosevelt sent Secretary of War Dern, onetime Governor of Utah, to Sacramento to address the conference on the National Recovery Act. Theme of his speech was that States must surrender more & more of their sovereignty to the Federal Government. Declared...
...public affairs. By means of the Indianapolis' high powered wireless, he was even now less than a minute from London. When he steamed up Chesapeake Bay other work & other worry hurried to meet him. To talk Recovery a Cabinet party consisting of Attorney General Cummings, Secretaries Swanson, Ickes, Dern and Roper was waiting to be taken aboard the cruiser, whose isolation the President liked so well that he elected to remain aboard 36 more hours before going to the White House. While his skeleton Cabinet of landlubbers prepared to brave seasickness on the Chesapeake's choppy waters...