Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last June Mrs. James Roosevelt, 79-year-old mother of the President, sailed from New York for a European holiday aboard the German liner Europa. Last week it was the French liner Ile de France that brought her back to the U. S. With her she brought from Aberdeenshire four yards of Scotch tweed as a present for her son to have a suit made from. Said she: "The cloth was very reasonable. I don't think it cost as much as £5. I do hope my son will have it made up, although Washington is hardly the place...
Also on tour last week was Postmaster General Farley, but his month's swing to the Pacific and back was anything but a holiday. Nominally the PMG was inspecting post offices. Actually he was working day & night on that lowliest of labors, mending political fences, shaking hands with every loose stone, patting it back firmly into place...
...laughed it off. Three weeks ago, Secretary Ickes prepared to induct John Wellington Finch of Idaho as Director of the Bureau of Mines. When told of Dr. Finch's fine technical qualifications for the job, the President had verbally approved the appointment and then sailed off on his holiday. When Dr. Finch's commission came over to the Bureau of Mines it bore, instead of the Presidential signature, a notation in Mr. Roosevelt's handwriting: "Hold for the PMG's approval." Mr. Farley had found out that Finch was a Republican...
Over the week-end Great Little Gaston remained obstinately at his holiday retreat, but it became obvious that he must return to Paris and intervene between Minister of State Herriot and Minister of State Tardieu, each of whom was demanding that the other resign. The shock of M. Tardieu's attack sent prices down on the Paris Bourse and many editors condemned as reckless and unpatriotic his attempt to rupture the Cabinet. In an effort to give Great Little Gaston all possible support President Albert Lebrun praised his "wisdom and prudence" in a formal speech at Aurillac, then declared...
...Among them the State divided a purse of 30,000 rubles, part to be used in paying bonuses to drivers, trainers and stable boys of the winning mounts. Evening's driver, called "Citizen Pianov" by earnest Soviet sportswriters, received, in addition to his bonus, one month's holiday on the Black Sea near the one-time summer palace of Tsar Nicholas II, at Government expense...