Word: howe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also needs a friend with the gumption to remind him that he cannot always be right, offer sympathetic but searching criticism of his plans and purposes, occasionally say "no" to his bright inspirations. More impulsive than most, Franklin Roosevelt had such a salutary intimate in the late Louis McHenry Howe. Since that devoted little secretary took to his deathbed more than a year ago, impartial White House correspondents have noted with increasing frequency that the President's other advisers are prone to be carried away by his warm enthusiasms, to cheer him on with a chorus, in effect...
...Presidential yacht. As the Potomac sailed back up the Potomac in a pelting rainstorm next day. wiseacres wondered whether Editor Moley was talking up to President Roosevelt in person as he had talked in his editorials and speeches, whether the onetime Columbia professor was preparing to replace Louis Howe as the Boss Man's much-needed...
Summary of Concentrators comments on men in the German Department: Walz, Howe, Lieder, Cawley older men in the department who are authorities in their field but tend to be rather uninspiring to undergraduates as lecturers. Starck--clear lecturer, con- genial. Heffner--stimulating, gives the literary angle. Nolte--good tutor (especially for divisional), knows his literature, material somewhat disorganized in German 6. Herrick--stimulating personality. Hawkes--progressive, interesting, good in composition courses. Cross--brilliant and interesting, the power of the Department. Vietor--good lecturer. Shelley--good younger tutor
...East Room of the White House funeral services were held over the body of the President's Secretary Louis McHenry Howe. Then President & Mrs. Roosevelt accompanied their late friend on a special train to Fall River, Mass., where he was buried, hurried back to Washington...
...DeWolfe Howe '87, member of the Board of Overseers, and chairman of its Visiting Committee for music, declared in an interview that he is heartily in sympathy with the idea behind the petition...