Word: guested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next morning he was up & around again as a man of affairs. With his house guest, Harry Hopkins, he talked over the future of the nearby Passamaquoddy tidal power project, now that Congress has definitely refused to authorize funds for its completion. Then, with his family, Premier Allison Dysart and several members of the New Brunswick Cabinet he went picnicking on a beach a mile from his home. There were only some 40 guests on the picnic, and Mrs. Roosevelt and the steward of the Presidential yacht Potomac succeeded in filling them adequately with roast beef, ham, salad and cake...
TIME'S thanks to Engineer Guest for an interesting and little-known sidelight on U. S. consumer co-operation...
...WARD E. GUEST...
...morning paper, no Briton could read the full text in his-the reason being nothing more sinister than that even the wealthiest British Press lords are habitually too parsimonious to order the full text of anything from abroad. Since most Britons assumed that Colonel Lindbergh, the Empire's guest, was thinking of the safety of his own home in Britain, gratitude for what he had said gushed. "I think Lindbergh's speech was wholesome and timely. All honor to him!" wrote London News-Pundit Henry Wickham Steed. "I wonder whether the Nazi authorities have allowed the full report...
...Eckstein did not attend Ravinia's revival which was launched by Conductor Ernest Ansermet. That spry, bearded Swiss gave modern Russian music many a first performance when he played for the old Diaghilev Ballet, has since guest-conducted in Europe and South America. Other Ravinia conductors who passed muster with Mrs. Eckstein were to be Willem van Hoogstraten. Hans Lange, Werner Janssen and three local men- Henry Weber, Rudolph Ganz, Isaac Van Grove. Whatever ghosts of old operatic voices lingered in the Ravinia rafters, Conductor Ansermet drowned them out with Wagner, Stravinsky, Liszt, Berlioz before taking a plane...