Word: hydes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...special Pennsylvania R. R. train carried the President out of Washington at midnight. Also aboard was Mrs. Roosevelt who had returned from her vacation just in time to join her husband on his. After breakfast next morning the special came to a leisurely stop at Hyde Park. The President descended a gangplank from the observation platform. Around him were hundreds of old friends and neighbors whom he saluted as "Tom" and "Joe" and '"Harry." A car sped him to Krum Elbow, the estate of his mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, who was on hand to greet her son. The Vincent...
...Before he left Washington President Roosevelt greeted World Flyer Wiley Post at the White House. At Hyde Park he had the flying Mollisons, Amy & Captain James, to Sunday dinner with Amelia Earhart and her husband George Palmer Putnam. "Well, well," cried he to his bandaged British guests, "you're both looking fine in spite of your accident." ¶One hundred and eighteen Missourians presented the President with a bay gelding to ride. Naming him "New Deal," he shipped the thoroughbred animal to Hyde Park for his guests' use. ¶To be Minister to Finland the President appointed Tennessee...
...Plans were made last week to move most of the White House office staff to Poughkeepsie, N. Y. for August when President Roosevelt takes the rest of his vacation at nearby Hyde Park. Around his estate the President will drive not a General Motors' Pontiac roadster, as reported, but a Chrysler-built De Soto. A "special job," this roadster was so contrived that it may be entirely operated by hand. Before his election Mr. Roosevelt had a Ford roadster equipped with hand gadgets for brake and clutch...
...General Motors built for and last week delivered to President Roosevelt a Pontiac roadster entirely operable by hand, which will carry the President about his Hyde Park estate when he goes there the end of this month...
...Charleston, S. C., where he collaborated with DuBose Hey ward on a book of poems (Carolina Chansons) and in founding the Poetry Society of South Carolina. After a job at Columbia University he lectured for two years at Vassar. One of his undergraduate listeners was Ann Hyde Andrews, whom he afterwards married. They went to Bermuda, spent five years there writing and farming. In an old house in Somerset Parish which Allen thinks was built by a retired pirate (its original name was "Felicity Haul"), he saw few tourists, lived cheaply, wrote most of Anthony Adverse...