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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finest present of all was reserved for the President's admired friend, Harry Hopkins, who with his daughter. Diana, 6, was a house guest. Supreme Court Justice Reed came over Christmas Eve, Mrs. Roosevelt supplied a black morocco Bible, and in the presence of about 50 high officials in the President's study, Harry Hopkins was sworn in as Secretary of Commerce...
Nazi Germany has had no stancher friend in England than the tall, handsome 60-year-old Marquess of Londonderry, who owns vast estates which make him one of Britain's wealthiest autocrats. In Germany Lord Londonderry has made personal friends with Führer Adolf Hitler. Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, Minister for Aviation Hermann Goring, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop...
Lord Londonderry is a potent friend because he is chairman of the Conservative Party. As entertainer in chief to Conservative Governments, he holds brilliant gatherings of lords, ladies, ministers and diplomats which have dazzled many a fiery Laborite. He has been a potent behind-the-scenes figure in Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasing the dictators. Last September the Marquess bobbed up at Munich at just the time Friend Chamberlain was arranging for Friend Hitler the big Czecho-Slovak handout. Even after Munich Lord Londonderry advocated a deal on colonies further to appease Nazi Germany...
...memorial exhibition was last week staged at Manhattan's Whitney Museum. Selected with the collaboration of three top-flight artists-Guy Pène du Bois, Eugene Speicher, Leon Kroll-it honored their friend William James Glackens, who died last...
...from Birmingham University, worked for a time in the English Westinghouse plant at Manchester), Reporter Cortesi has spent the last 17 of his 41 years covering Italy for the Times, prefers quiet meals at home to dining out in smart places. "His only objections to alcohol," according to a friend, "are those dictated by his kidneys...