Word: howe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rush of final business grew heavier, the time came for Franklin Roosevelt to say farewell to his best friend and fondest admirer, Louis McHenry Howe. Secretary Howe was sufficiently recovered not to need his oxygen tent any longer, but is still too ill to be bothered with serious political news. Mrs. Roosevelt drove Invalid Howe from the White House to the Naval Hospital while the President returned to his work, appointed Raymond Bartlett Stevens of New Hampshire, one-time adviser to the Siamese Government, a member of the Tariff Commission; addressed the State directors of National Youth Administration; wrote Senator...
...with hot food. Rated capacity of the stove was three modest meals at a time. Franklin Roosevelt was keeping bachelor hall. Mrs. Roosevelt had scampered off to Campobello Island in Canada. Left in the White House with the President were only his sick secretary, Louis McHenry Howe, Mrs. Howe and Personal Secretary Marguerite ("Missy") Le Hand. Since neither the President nor ailing Mr. Howe could well go out to meals, it was up to the ladies to take turns dining...
...Hallelujah. The song was published by John Church of Cincinnati in 1861. Union soldiers, at the outbreak of the Civil War, picked it up as a marching song, added the "Jeff Davis" verse, carried it to Washington. There in 1862 after a great review across the Potomac Julia Ward Howe heard the Federal troopers singing it. Early the next morning, with John Brown's Body running through her mind, she wrote the words of The Battle Hymn of the Republic to Bishop's tune...
Bishop died a respectable citizen in the early 1900's, surviving such friends as Foster, Dan Emmett (Dixie). Nelson Kneass (Ben Bolt). The Battle Hymn of the Republic has always been regarded as Julia Ward Howe's song, written to the tune of John Brown's Body whose authorship seemed to be unknown. At MacIntyre's request Thomas Brigham Bishop wrote out the tune's true history. Said he: "It was really done as a joke upon my sanctimonious brother...
Score--Harvard 12, Boston Lacrosse Club 2. Goals--Edmands 5, England 4, Bosworth 3, Maddux, F. Martin, Woodward. Substitutions--Harvard: Howe, Clos, Purdy, Maddux, Wood, Hartshorne, Carter; Boston Lacrosse Club: Henderson, Hyerson, Ghriskey, Crawley, Morrissey, Rohn Martineau, B. Martin, Burleigh. Referee--Ward. Time--Four 15-minute periods...