Word: fines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Some 30 years ago Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, disliking the red draperies planned for the East Room of the White House, put up gold ones instead. Mrs. Roosevelt last week revealed that the President asked the Commission of Fine Arts for permission to replace Mrs. Roosevelt's with a red damask set costing $4,000. Other proposed changes: a new piano to replace the gold piano in the East Room (its tone is failing); $10,000 worth of air conditioning equipment to cool individual rooms in the White House (complete air conditioning would cost some...
Passing through Widener in the afternoon, stoped to look at the fine exhibition of the books of Pushkin, Russia's greatest poet. It does my heart good to see that much-maligned country have something to show off to us all. It would seem that there is something Mr. Trotsky and Mr. Stalin can both agree is good. Into the Harry Elins room to see the first four folios of Shakespere laid out under glass like Harvard's very crown jewels. Which they really are, judging from what the white haired lady told me of their rareness and value...
...inescapable conclusion is that the President intends to sacrifice his fine ideas for reform of the lower courts on the altar of his last for power over a courageous high tribunal which has hitherto proved recalcitrant to his demand for dictatorial sway. And an interesting commentary on the whole performance is the tomb-like silence from the Harvard Law School, where a group of influential and honorable men, instead of running to the defence of tradition, are indulging in a little sit-down-and-wait strike of their own. For Caesar is ambitious, and the honorable men find it profitable...
Harvard is a fine example of what a school may be when it is not tied by the bounds of an egocentric government living for an emasculated tradition. Germany's intervention in education is as ruthless as her 1914 march through Belgium...
...fine fettle last week was Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler, acrid chairman of the Senate committee investigating railroad finance. Fortnight ago the Senator unearthed amid the yellowing records of the Van Sweringen empire and the dust bins of Guaranty Co. history one gem of purest ray serene. This was a memorandum written in 1930 by John Minor Botts Hoxsey, listing expert of the New York Stock Exchange, warning that "public protest" would follow the multiplication of such corporations as the Van Sweringen holding companies, for which Guaranty Co. underwrote and the Stock Exchange approved an ill-fated $30,000,000 bond...