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From the crest of gigantic Chickamauga Dam, which backs up the waters of the turbulent Tennessee River eight miles above Chattanooga, President Roosevelt this week made his first major address since he accepted the Democratic nomination for the Third Term. Hatless in the withering sun, he sat in the back seat of an open car that had been run up on a hastily-built slack pine ramp. Sweat poured down the President's face, soaked through his seersucker suit...
...cindery hill road from the village, heading a small procession. The villagers, mostly Republicans (they were saying so all evening) rattled a few handclaps as Eleanor Roosevelt, in a loose, flowered green dress, stepped out first and walked around to stand beside the ramp; rattled again as the hatless President emerged, got his footing, clapped a straw hat on his head with one hand and moved up the ramp. At the top he turned and waved his hat in response to another little clatter of handclaps. Thus the President set off last week on his second tour of the Eastern...
...this sudden access of fame. It is understandable that a Harvard president must look to his wardrobe, but also let him keep up on his mountaineering. For sheer refreshment, Calvin Coolidge in an Indian war bonnet is nothing to the sight of Mr. Conant on a mountain top, coatless, hatless, and unkempt. And some day, if the Fates are kind, we may catch a glimpse of him lounging along Quincy St., in a shabby tweed jacket, and trousers breaking slightly around the knee...
...Virginia hill that slopes into the Potomac, twice as many Americans as usual walked, hushed and hatless, to stand in sombre silence by the white marble Unknown Soldier's Tomb. In Sudbury, Mass., leathery old Henry Ford, who once called history "bunk" and with his "peace ship"* tried to stop World War I before Christmas 1915, told reporters: "They don't dare have a war and they know it. It's all a big bluff." About Hitler: "I don't know Hitler personally, but at least Germany keeps its people at work...
...King George returned, hurried and hatless, from Scotland to attend Privy Council, become a quasi-dictator and stay at Buckingham Palace, beneath whose gardens were built prodigious bombproof quarters for King, retinue, servants. Queen Elizabeth and the two Princesses stayed on at Balmoral Castle, where gas masks were issued to all. Later they would go to Windsor Castle, whose rock, looming above the fabled cricket fields of Eton, was tunneled and chambered invulnerably for them and for art treasures from Buckingham Palace as well as the Castle. Queen Mary obdurately insisted on staying at Sandringham on the dangerous east coast...