Word: howe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While he lived, the nation hardly knew that Louis McHenry Howe had a wife. Quartered like a bachelor in Abraham Lincoln's White House room, Franklin Roosevelt's gnarled and gnomish No. 1 Secretary was a member of the private as well as the official Presidential family, spent more time in Washington than he did at home in Fall River, Mass...
Last week it was revealed that, while her famed husband devoted himself to Franklin Roosevelt's affairs, plump, grey-eyed Grace Hartley Howe has done more than sit at home rearing his son and daughter. She is a director of Fall River's Family Welfare Association, Historical Society, Ninth Street Day Nursery and of the League of Nations Association; advisory board member of the Consumers' League of Massachusetts and of various local WPA projects; trustee of the Bristol County Agricultural School and Fall River Public Library; secretary of Massachusetts' Democratic State Committee and vice chairman...
None of these activities, however, has made her rich, and Louis Howe left "less than $20,000." Last week President Roosevelt recompensed his most devoted and intimate friend's relict for virtual widowhood during her husband's later life by appointing her acting postmaster of Fall River, at $4,000 per year...
...duties into his already full life somehow. A. D. A. presidents are expected to do a lot of traveling to keep in touch with the 48 state dental societies and to keep the member's noses glued to dental ideals. Said Dr. Miner: "I hope to break Percy Howe's record when he was president,* of having traveled less than any other A. D. A. president...
Amarillo is a cow, oil & gas town put on the map by the uncomplimentary comments of Gene Howe, editor of its Globe-News, on Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and Mary Garden. Seven miles away lies a Federal gas processing plant which produces most of the world's helium. Waco makes its living from cotton, has a Cotton Palace, an annual Cotton Festival and Baylor University. "Dr. Pepper," the South's famed soft drink, originated in Waco and the late Mary Louise ("Texas") Guinan was born on a nearby potato ranch. San Angelo makes its living from sheep...