Word: eves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like Senator Thomas, he is planning for the next phase of the fight. In his New Year's Eve radio sermon he declared: "There is starvation because what little gold there is is in the hands of a few who mumble about the sacredness of man-made contracts in defiance of God-made obligations. Congress must decide once and for all whether Christ was a poet and idealist when He enunciated 'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.' I still believe in His practicability...
...cancelling the annual New Year's reception to the public, the President spared himself an ordeal and gained valuable working time. Only holiday function at the White House was a supper dance given by Mrs. Roosevelt for 300 youngsters and her children night before New Year's Eve...
...death of George Washington Cram on New Year's Eve closed a career which will be remembered as one of Harvard's longest and most useful. Forty-two years of Mr. Cram's life were devoted to the University, as Recorder, as Secretary of the Faculty, and as Secretary of Appointments...
...before Christmas Eve the President gave a holiday to his clerical staff. To each clerk and stenographer he presented a book, with his autograph on the flyleaf. Next day he entertained, first, the families of his chauffeurs and mechanics, then the families of the White House domestic staff. All children under 15 received their gifts from the President himself. That night, true to family tradition, he read A Christmas Carol aloud to kith & kin. Just before he put out the light to go to sleep he saw nine socks and stockings hanging over his big bedroom fireplace...
...fantastic fees. Soprano Maria Jeritza, who opened many a Metropolitan season, was to sing the first night in Tosca. Mario Chamlee, John Charles Thomas and Grace Moore were listed for later on. Edith Mason and Rosa Raisa, two of Insull's singers, were back New Year's Eve Marion Talley will sing in Rigoletto, the opera in which she made her sensational Metropolitan debut seven years ago (TIME, March 1, 1926) For four years Miss Talley has been in re tirement, ostensibly wheat-farming in Kansas. Because farming has not proved so profitable as singing she is attempting...