Word: ident
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ident Roosevelt's Administration...
...inconsequential. Its participants "debate their common problems," "exchange executive ideas," steer clear of concerted action on real public issues. Last week the Governors held their business sessions in the State Capitol at Sacramento and in the Supreme Court chamber in San Francisco. They pledged their support to Pres ident Roosevelt's recovery program and in return the President, an inveterate conferee when Governor of New York.* invited them all to Washington next winter to discuss such things as oil production and land conservation...
...cellist. Mrs. Hoover attended, applauded vigorously, sent Herr Dr. Kindler a big bunch of yellow chrysanthemums. When Conductor Kindler had learned that Pres ident Hoover would not attend, he had sighed a great sigh of regret. "Ah, me." said he. "The President can always find time to attend the opening of a World Series and throw out the first ball. Tell His Excellency that if he will come to our opening, I will give him a fiddle to throw...
...descent. His wealth derived from his conception and industrious execution of the idea of building skyscrapers like a graduated pile of boxes with the smallest on top - the "set back'' style to provide air and light. He designed the Seaboard National Bank in New York (Seaboard Pres ident Samuel Bayne is his father-in-law), the Magnolia Petroleum Building in Dallas, Tex. Other important Bossom commissions in the U. S. included the restoration of Fort Ticonderoga for ex-Congress man Herbert C. Pell. In Britain he is a member of the London County Council and chairman...