Word: iii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Virginia pine filled the White House grounds last week. Beyond the north lawn and across broad Pennsylvania Avenue, along Lafayette Park, workmen were knocking together grandstands. There on Jan. 20 the President and as many U. S. citizens as can be accommodated will watch the inaugural parade of Term III: a two-hour procession of the nation's armed forces, including a mechanized unit from Fort Knox...
King Defies. Bulgaria, vital pawn in the giants' chess game, entered an uneasy new year. King Boris III, who prefers his English cousins any day to his Hohenzollern relatives, had told Adolf Hitler at Berlin that, rather than see German troops in his peasant kingdom, he would abdicate. Last Week he retired 27 high Army officers who had demanded that Bulgaria join the Axis and, in a stormy session of the Sobranje, Premier Bogdan Filoff silenced pro-Nazi deputies with a defiant "No foreign regimes for Bulgaria." With the arrival of the first Nazi units at the frontier, Bulgarian...
...Pittsburgh (who signed himself "the Presidential mascot's cocker spaniel friend") : "A magazine* refers to you as a 'silent and undemanding companion.' Don't ever change. Your master must have few enough who fall into that category." Except for two-year-old Franklin Delano Roosevelt III, generally known as Joe, only youngster at the White House Christmas was pert, black-eyed Diana Hopkins, 8, daughter of Presidential Friend Harry L. Hopkins. Besides helping Mrs. Roosevelt by arranging the White House creche, Diana rollicked off to the executive offices, had her picture snapped with...
Married. Eugene Meyer III, 25, senior in medicine at Johns Hopkins, and son & namesake of the Washington Post's publisher and onetime governor of the Federal Reserve Board; and Mary Adelaide Bradley, 24, graduate student at Johns Hopkins; in Cambridge, Mass...
...Frau von S. (1795): "I can't enter upon any marriage which does not make provision for my old age and for the welfare of my children. ... I am aware, dear lady, that you are the possessor of a considerable income. . . ." The Duke of Sussex, son of George III, to Lady Augusta Murray (1820): ". . . By all that is holy, till I am married I will eat nothing...