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...Scrawling his signature on a stack of bills, Franklin Roosevelt came to one, signed, passed on without ceremony to the next and the next. The bill in question appropriated $10,000 for the preparation of a site and authorized the erection at private expense of a monument to Grover Cleveland, a Democratic President who, in an earlier depression, vetoed every bill he thought was unconstitutional, fought bitterly with Congress to maintain the gold dollar, and declared that "though the people support the Government the Government should not support the people." ¶ The Treasury presented the President with figures...
Married. James Grover Thurber, 40, famed one-eyed author and artist of The New Yorker; and Helen M. Wismer, pulp writer; in Colebrook, Conn...
...Mill Neck, on Long Island's swank North Shore estate of onetime Aircraft Manufacturer Grover Cleveland Loening, 500 socialites gathered for a beauty contest between "16 Gorgeous, Glorious, Glamorous Girls, a Breath-taking Panoply of Pulchritude" enlisted from the neighborhood's own select ranks. Among the contestants were Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney as Miss Wheatley Hills, Mrs. John R. Fell as Miss Woodbury, Helen Whitney Bourne as Miss Mitt Neck, Mrs. George Hepburn as Miss Locust Valley, Mrs. Jay Carlisle Jr. as Miss East Islip. The young women first paraded before the judges in evening dress, then...
...Most vetoing President was Grover Cleveland, who wrote 350, had only two overridden. Most overridden President was Andrew Johnson, who had 15 vetoes beaten. Records of recent Presidents: Woodrow Wilson, vetoes 33, overridden six; Warren Gamaliel Harding, vetoes five, overridden none; Calvin Coolidge, vetoes 20, overridden four; Herbert Hoover, vetoes 33, overridden three; Franklin Delano Roosevelt, vetoes 27, overridden...
...Lash was an exuberant, big-eared young art student in the Paris of Trilby and Bouguereau when Grover Cleveland was President of the U. S. In those fine days his father in San Francisco, a lace importer from Prague, had plenty of money. By 1892 Son Lee was a capable painter. Last week at Manhattan's Keppel Gallery Lee Lash at 70 had his first one-man show...