Word: gift
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another Eleanor Roosevelt story came via Walter Winchell, who reported that William Allen White had thus inscribed a gift copy of Mrs. Roosevelt's autobiography (This Is My Story), "This is a swell story of the wisest, kindest, dearest, smartest First Lady I have ever known, and my candidate for Franklin's third term...
...stock buyers wanted to know if they had got ahead of the business procession, if so, how far. One reason why $87.50 seemed a more logical price than $100 for War Baby No. i Bethlehem Steel, was this kind of calculation: the very lowest estimate of September's gift to U. S. warehouses runs at something like $1,000,000,000 of unconsumed production. Meanwhile, standard domestic consumption indices (like department store sales) are doing no booming at all. Even Montgomery Ward and Sears, Roebuck have suddenly lost their 1938-39 oomph. Only a real export boom seemed likely...
...Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry was established in 1925 through the gift of Charles Chauncey Stillman '28, in memory of Charles Eliot Norton, who was professor of the History...
...documents and books of Mr. Lamont's collection, a number of which are unique, "provide a picture of the summer of 1588 so vivid and so complete that the gift may well induce a reappraisal of the story of the Armada," the library staff reported...
Among the manuscripts in the gift are two fine contemporary copies of the English "Treatise of the Navy" by John Mountgomery, one dated 1574, and the other 1589. The former was especially transcribed for Henry Perey, the "Wizard" Earl of Northumberland, who served against the Armada...