Word: details
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Anxious to hold Bonus enthusiasm in check, the President made public a 1,150-word letter he had written to the commander of an American Legion Post in Texas. Without at any point flatly rejecting the Legion's demand for immediate payment of the Bonus, he explained in detail just why that demand amounted to holding up the U. S. Treasury for $2,320,000,000 over and above the Bonus originally voted to veterans by Congress...
...Hanford report discusses in detail the two principles on which Harvard bases its scholarships: first "as an incentive to scholarly effort or as a form of academic achievement," and secondly, to provide financial assistance to needy students of high record...
...that is pink instead of green?to take his dictation was Private Secretary Marguerite Le Hand, known to the whole Roosevelt family as "Missy." She, too, was smiling. In fact everyone was pleased with the new offices except the Secret Service men. Chubby-cheeked Richard Jervis, chief of the detail which has been guarding the lives of Presidents since the McKinley assassination (1901), and his able assistant. Colonel Edward Starling, were more than a little worried by all the entrances provided to the President's office. But he was not worried. Gus Gennerich lifted him into his desk chair...
Francis Keppel '38 has been appointed chairman of the Red Book Board for this year's publication, according to an announcement made yesterday. The Red Book, which sets forth in detail the accomplishments of the first year of the class, and the Senior Class Album, which shows its later development, are the only undergraduate records containing the history of the class...
...letter of December 7, I refuted the writers who discuss "big stick control" and "the tying of Eddie Casey's hands" by stating the bald and true fact that this was not correct in any detail. I did not commend the poor football season or decry the inevitable change in the coaching system; but I went behind this obvious cause to give other reasons why many ignorant people criticize the H.A.A., and to show what little foundation these reasons have Casey's own statement on Sunday made it plain that Harvard's policy has remained firm and unchangeable...