Word: iii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White House as in many another U. S. home. For the first time the children were scattered-Anna stayed in Seattle, James on the Pacific Coast, John in Boston. Elliott, traveling for the Army, could not get to Washington. Only Franklin Jr., his wife and Franklin Roosevelt III, aged 2½, were on hand as in the past. There were only two children to hang their stockings on the mantelpiece in the President's bedroom-Franklin III and Harry Hopkins' small daughter, Diana. It was the quietest Christmas since the first that the Roosevelts spent in the White...
...Congress as a whole was not in Washington, at least it was still in session-able to meet in earnest and keep an eye on Franklin Roosevelt. So Session III last week edged toward a record: by Jan. 2 it will have sat 366 days, longest session in history. Its two achievements: 1) passage of the first peacetime conscription law in U. S. history; 2) appropriation of more money ($23,000,000,000) than any peacetime Congress...
...Europe's thin ice. In other issues recently Commentator has denounced Dorothy Thompson, H. V. Kaltenborn (a onetime Commentator editor), Playwright Robert Sherwood, Harvard's President James Bryant Conant, Walter Lippmann, William Allen White, Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish, and PM's backer Marshall Field III as "Internationalists" conspiring to force the U. S. into...
...During the reign of Henry III, 'to wound, maym or kill a fairy' was punishable by death...
...Metropolitan had taken a deep breath, returned Masked Ball to its rightful Sweden. Riccardo (Tenor Jussi Bjoerling) was further identified on the program as Gustave III. But the Met's restyling stopped there. The chorus, singing in Italian, hailed the king as "son of England." The conspirators (historically Counts Horn and Warting) were still Samuel and Tom, although no longer black. In three out of Masked Ball's five acts, the scenery (by one Mstislav Dobujinski) was the traditional Metropolitan mud color. But the 18th-Century costumes were excellent. The production cost about $35,000. The opening night...