Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...holiday dance last year Allan Hoover danced first with Fannie Homans, niece of Secretary of the Navy Adams. His first partner this year was Grace Roosevelt, daughter of Governor Theodore Roosevelt Jr. of Porto Rico. Washington gossips again overemphasized the significance of that first dance. More than 200 of Washington's nicest boys and girls began rigadooning in the East Room promptly at 10 p. m. Piece de resistance of Orchestra Conductor Meyer Davis' repertoire was "Moonlight on the Santa Clara," which he composed himself and dedicated to Allan Hoover to signalize the occasion. Revelry ceased...
...Congress reassembled after holiday recess, its more thoughtful members realized that this was to be one of the busiest, most critical sessions that ever sat. The Capitol's serious air was supercharged by an unexpected special message from the President calling for immediate, non-partisan enactment of relief legislation. All the leaders were agreed to put that first thing as far as possible first. But Congress is Congress, composed of politicians. Its opening day was not without an event which contained as much politics as economics. The big story for which the Press was on the lookout during...
Interim Activity. With its holiday adjournment Congress did not shut up shop altogether. Relief legislation requested by the President had to be made ready by committees. Announced the President: "Leaders of both houses assure me that the measures which are uncompleted will receive immediate attention after reconvening; that the Reconstruction Finance Corp. will be the first to receive consideration and that it has sufficient support to be passed by Congress...
February: Just getting into his stride, Premier Laval leaned on the stooped shoulder of old Brer Briand in Chamber debate, backed him in pledging France to observe the One-Year Naval Holiday proposed by Foreign Minister Dino Grandi of Italy...
Husband's Holiday (Paramount) is a solemn little problem play on marital infidelity, a subject which usually in the cinema is material for fun. The three persons chiefly involved?husband (Clive Brook), wife (Vivienne Osborne) and mistress (Juliette Compton)?regard their situation as a predicament. They make honest and generally sensible efforts to extricate themselves. The wife is eventually generous enough to give the husband a divorce. He, still troubled by a case of indecision, wanders about in the snow at night, making up his mind which way to go. The mistress, who is not a designing wench...