Word: hyde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Majesty does not. She equipped their beds in the White House with new springs & mattresses on the advice of her sons that the old ones were rock hard. She worried about the water being turned on in Mr. Roosevelt's "dream cottage" at Hyde Park, where royalty would picnic Sunday. Princess Te Ata, a Choctaw-Chickasaw half-breed from Oklahoma, was engaged to tell Indian tales at the Hyde Park hot-dog fest. Her newspaper syndicate announced that she would describe Their Majesties' doings in her column My Day. She added Kate Smith and a cowboy-song singer...
...Administration leaders on Capitol Hill let it be known that they would like Congress to adjourn by July 15, a date chosen because by then Mr. Roosevelt will have entertained the King & Queen in Washington and in Hyde Park and returned from his annual cross-country survey "to see what the nation is thinking." Until July 15 (at least) Congress will simmer in Washington over: 1) Neutrality legislation, which had seemed moribund until Secretary Hull pleaded last week for amendments to allow sale of arms to (good) nations at war, 2) a tax bill, 3) Social Security. Mr. Roosevelt could...
When Franklin Roosevelt journeys from Washington to Hyde Park, he generally takes the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. It is his favorite passenger line and its 78-year-old president, Daniel Willard, is his good friend. Genial Dan Willard is also the good friend of RFC Chairman Jesse Jones and has many a warm admirer in Congress, where he is regarded as a liberal with a good railroad labor record. In the last year and a half this widespread affection for President Willard is about all that has saved the sore-pressed B. & 0. from reorganization...
...role suits the Squire of Hyde Park better than that of well-born man-of-the-world hobnobbing with distinguished visitors. He drove down to the Poughkeepsie lumber yard where the Potomac docks when it is there, got out of his car to handshake handsome Crown Prince Olav & Crown Princess Martha of Norway. Mr. Roosevelt, though fluent in French, speaks no Scandinavian tongues, but he did not need to. The royal Norwegians speak Mayfair English...
...Harvard Rifle Club has elected the following new officers for next year: Walter L. Hyde '41, President; James W. Cooper '41, Secretary; and Henry F. Dunbar, '42, Assistant Secretary...