Word: hydes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Special trains can go special places. One afternoon last week five sleek Pullman cars backed into the little West Shore R. R. town of Highland, N. Y. Late that evening President Roosevelt, crossing the Mid-Hudson Bridge from his Hyde Park estate, boarded the train and it sped down the river to Weehawken. In the dead of night, under heavy police escort, the five Pullmans threaded their rumbly way through mazy miles of freight yards which had not seen a passenger train, much less a Presidential special, in 40 years. They finally emerged on the Baltimore & Ohio tracks beyond Jersey...
...persons of American citizens," announced that his Government had no intention of intervention. ¶ President Roosevelt transferred another career diplomat when he appointed white-crested Charles Stetson Wilson, now Minister to Rumania, to be Minister to Jugoslavia. ¶ After a week in Washington, President Roosevelt planned to return to Hyde Park to finish his vacation. Over Labor Day week-end he would cruise back to the Capital aboard Vincent Astor's big white Nourmahal...
...have some rather grand news for you," was President Roosevelt's greeting to newshawks one day last week as they flocked into his Hyde Park study. He proceeded to tell them that Secretary of the Treasury Woodin had just telephoned him that the Government's $500,000,000 issue of 3¼% bonds had been oversubscribed six times.* It was the new Administration's first excursion into the bond market, in fact the first long-term Treasury issue since September 1931. The rush of investors for the new bonds was generally interpreted as one more manifestation...
...charged the shipbuilders with collusion, accused them of protecting one another so that each would certainly be low bidder on at least one type of vessel. The Navy investigated, could find no substantiation of Mr. Trammell's charges. But to play safe three ranking admirals flew to Hyde Park, laid all the bids before President Roosevelt, got that onetime Assistant Secretary of the Navy's approval for each & every contract. Also announced last week was the Navy's 16-ship building program in its own yards. Brooklyn and Philadelphia each got a light cruiser order. Two destroyers...
...Federal Government's whole recovery program was on the verge of being engulfed in a tidal wave of labor disputes, one evening last week as National Recovery Administrator Johnson climbed into a trimotored Army plane in Washington and flew off for a midnight meeting with President Roosevelt at Hyde Park. When General Johnson woke up next morning in Poughkeepsie's Nelson Hotel the coal strike had been called off for the time being. The recovery program was again moving forward on an even keel. By his night flight General Johnson had not only patched up a strike truce...