Word: halled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cordell Hull, Mrs. Henry Wallace & Miss Frances Perkins played hostess at the White House for the D. A. R., from which Mrs. Roosevelt resigned because of its refusal to let Negro Contralto Marian Anderson sing in Constitution Hall. Mrs. Roosevelt was en route by air from Seattle to Boston, to attend the funeral of her brother Gracie Hall's son Daniel, killed flying in Mexico...
...Said Upton Close (Josef Washington Hall), author & lecturer on the Orient: "One good isolationist Senator is worth more to Japan than a whole division of soldiers...
...common people were represented too. Three rooms and part of the main Chancellery Hall were piled high with presents. Peasants sent their native handiwork. Westphalian women knitted 6,000 pairs of socks for the Fiihrer's soldiers. Housewives got together to bake a six-foot cake. From the more militarily minded came pistols, hand grenades, an assortment of knives and daggers, a live eagle which the Führer will release in the Bavarian Mountains...
...evening of October 16, the treaty was signed while church bells rang and a crowd clamored outside the town hall. It was brought to the window, lighted like an ikon. Mussolini took a special train from Rome to Milan, drove a racing car from Milan to Stresa, a speedboat from Stresa to Locarno. Briand, always in bed by nine if possible, was asleep two hours after the signing. But he was stirred: "It is ended," he said later, "that long war between us. Ended those long veils of mourning for the pains that will never be assuaged. Away with...
...afternoon last week, Seattle's new Field Artillery Armory had its first public function. For the Citizens' Military Observance Patriotic Mass Meeting, 3,000 patriotic citizens appeared. Field guns lined the big hall. On the platform sat the great & good of Seattle's churches. Unconsidered among these bigwigs sat an uninvited guest -an obscure, churchless Congregational minister, Rev. Louis E. Scholl, 62. As he listened to the invocation by a Roman Catholic priest and a speech on peace and democracy by Major General John F. O'Ryan (retired), Mr. Scholl was outwardly calm. Inwardly, however...