Word: howe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eastport. Drums ruffled, trumpets flourished, a salute gun barked 21 times and the seagoing President went rolling into the unknown as far as the nation was concerned for three days. No newshawks were aboard to report the hourly doings of Mr. Roosevelt, nor of his familiar Louis McHenry Howe, nor of Henry Morgenthau of the Farm Credit Administration, nor of Franklin Jr. and a lucky Groton friend. Not even the Navy Department knew the position of the Indianapolis from day to day. The cruiser ploughed swiftly toward Annapolis, drawing to a close the 15-day Presidential vacation which had provided...
...Alabama's Black appropriating $25,000 to investigate air and ocean mail contracts. ¶ Received a report from its Military Affairs Committee on the purchase of 200,000 kits at $1.40 each for the Civilian Conservation Corps after supersalesman Richard B. Bevier had visited Roosevelt Secretary Louis McHenry Howe. Said the report: "We find no evidence that would sustain a charge of corruption or improper motive. However we find that lower prices could have been obtained for articles of a quality sufficient to meet all requirements...
...Lect. Hall Mr. Bennett, Sec. 19, 21 New Lect. Hall Mr. Buffington, Sec. 6, 17 New Lect. Hall Mr. Hawkes, Sec. 4 New Lect. Hall Mr. Henry, Sec. 7 New Lect. Hall Dr. Herrick, Sec. 1, 14 Sever 36 Mr. Holske, Sec. 9 Memorial Hall Dr. Howe, Sec. 5 Memorial Hall Mr. Metcalf, Sec. 8 Memorial Hall Mr. Phelps, Sec. 3, 12 Memorial Hall Mr. Shelley, Sec. 13, 16 Memorial Hall Mr. Stamm, Sec. 10, 11 Memorial Hall Government 24 Emerson 211 History 53a Sever 2 Indic Philology 3 Emerson 211 Sociology 6 Emerson 211 2 P. M. (XVIII) Engin...
...Senate committee was told that on May 15 Richard B. Bevier had come to Mr. Howe with an introductory letter from Basil O'Connor, the President's one-time law partner. After inspecting Mr. Bevier's toilet kits (comb, toothbrush, soap, toothpaste, toothbrush holder, brush. soap box, mirror, shaving cream, razor, razor blades), Secretary Howe asked Budget Director Douglas to come over and have a look at them. Director Douglas was busy, sent a subordinate named Lowery. Instructing Lowery to investigate the cost and quality of the product as compared with the kits the Army was already...
...Before the whirlwind finish of his Washington sales campaign he had spent a fruitless fortnight interviewing captains and colonels in the War Department. It then occurred to him, he said, that a President's Secretary would know "exactly what officials to get in contact with." He saw Mr. Howe at 3:30 the afternoon of May 15. Mr. Howe's letter did not reach Director Fechner until next day, but "before sundown" the contract, under which 110,000 $1.40 Be Vier kits have already been delivered, was signed and in his pocket. Up to "that time, he said...