Word: ended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Widener Library. He had been there for several weeks, now, slaving over what he hoped would some day turn into a Senior thesis. He did not particularly care for his thesis, for he had a particular dread of being shut up in a poorly lighted place for hours on end, compelled to pore through book after book, article after article, searching for the headwaters of the fountain of knowledge, a spring which often seemed as elusive as the fountain of youth once sought by Ponce de Leon...
...tiny boy, he had been taken by his parents to visit the county jail of his home town in Connecticut. It was a dark redbrick building, ivy-clad, and punctuated with tiny windows covered with lattice grille-work in strong steel. There was something bout that window at the end of the corridor of the library that reminded him of that old eighteenth century county jail. The steel book-racks, the dull concrete floors of the corridors served to heighten the impression that he was in prison, tortured by the Gods and Harvard college for a number of weeks...
...Passed a deficiency bill providing $250,000,000 to provide relief to the end of fiscal 1938 (making the year's total relief appropriations...
...like amount of the Roosevelt brand of insurance. In his first year with Sargent, James acquired $67,000 worth of independence. Business improved each succeeding year until James-now the richest of the Roosevelts excepting possibly his grandmother-is estimated to be worth half a million dollars. And the end is not in sight: James resigned the presidency of his firm when he went to work at the White House, but he still draws half the profits...
...end of such a day Secretary James and wife almost always dine at the White House. After dinner he usually goes upstairs with his father to the knickknack-filled second-floor study, next to the President's bedroom. Recently, a reporter asked an old-time politician how much influence James exerted on the affairs of the nation...