Word: downpours
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...Scout cheerfulness was put to the test this week by a downpour that lasted all Sunday night and half the next day, turning much of the camp area into quagmire. Undismayed, 5,000 selected Scouts marched to a memorial service in the Arlington National Cemetery theatre, placed a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Governmental high spot of the jamboree came later this week with President Roosevelt's review. Instead of waiting while the 25,000 passed him, the President was to drive down Constitution Avenue, lined for two miles by cheering Boy Scouts...
...When the National Press Club held its annual Anchors Aweigh party, the President motored down to Quantico, Va. to throw out the first ball in the game between Congressmen and Newshawks. Having waited at the Marines' ball park for 15 minutes in a downpour without seeing any signs of his hosts, he drove down to the dock where the party had remained weatherbound on the steamer which had brought it from Washington. On the gangplank he witnessed the presentation by Senator Tom Connally of a new Texas sombrero to Vice President Garner in restitution for one Mr. Garner lost...
...advance made by either side since Madrid settled down to bloody siege (TIME, Nov. 9 et seq.) came last week when the defending Red Militia swarmed over the West Park in Madrid's northwest section, where the Whites had strongly entrenched themselves. This followed after three days of downpour had sent millions of gallons roaring down the Guadarrama and Manzanares Rivers, which overflowed into the White trenches. Gun carriages sank into seas of mud. Dripping wet and nipped by freezing cold, the White troops of Generalissimo Francisco Franco withdrew to higher ground, surrendering the waterlogged region to the jubilant...
...inaugurations are sentimental occasions. Last week for 200,000 visitors to Washington-not counting several thousand who arrived in the Union Station and never got any farther because of the downpour-the second inauguration of Franklin Roosevelt as President of the U. S. was a sentimental historical ducking in five acts Act I took place in mid-morning at St. John's Episcopal Church across Lafayette Square from the White House. There the Rev. Dr. Endicott Peabody, headmaster of Groton School, held services just as he did four years ago for his onetime student Franklin, for Franklin...
...abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." Act V was not Franklin Roosevelt's drive home in an open car with a half inch of water on the floor and Mrs. Roosevelt sitting beside him in the downpour, her new inauguration bonnet resembling a last year's bathing cap. It was not the buffet luncheon in the White House with 500 recently soaked notables. It was not the hour and a half spent in the reviewing stand-an $11,000 model of Andrew Jackson's home...