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When this handsomely engraved official invitation from the Inaugural Committee's Chairman Gary T. Grayson turned up on his desk one day last week, President Roosevelt let out a roar of delight, seized a pen, scrawled across the bottom a note to Chief W. E. Rockwell of the White House Social Bureau: "Please regret this invitation. I will be too busy...
With another roar, the President again took pen in hand, squiggled across the bottom a note to Rear Admiral Grayson: "I have re-arranged my engagements & work & think I may be able to go. Will know definitely...
...When the funeral was over Vice President Garner took him aside for a long chat. For the rest of that day and the next and the next, cue-seekers passed in procession through the White House offices. Those interested in immediate or routine questions-inauguration ceremonies (Admiral Gary T. Grayson), CCC continuation (Director Fechner), tax revision (Senator Pat Harrison, Representative Bob Doughton), budget (Secretary Morgenthau, Chairman Eccles of the Federal Reserve)-got immediate answers. But Franklin Roosevelt, having waved aside for a whole month matters of second-term policy, gave no sign that he was ready promptly on return...
...Secretary Marvin Mclntyre secured the services of Rear Admiral Gary T. Grayson, who served in the same capacity in 1933, to act as Chairman of the Inaugural Committee, and Mrs. Roosevelt announced that for the inauguration she would undoubtedly wear her black broadtail. Said she: "I have had the coat three years, but it is perfectly good and I expect to wear it a good many years after this. I should not dream of getting...
...many as 500,000 Spaniards have perished since the Spanish War began. By far the greater number were noncombatants who died at the hands of rival firing squads or were killed in the battle for Madrid," declared Rear Admiral Gary Travers Grayson, chairman of the American National Red Cross, back in Manhattan from an International Red Cross meeting in Paris...