Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rush of final business grew heavier, the time came for Franklin Roosevelt to say farewell to his best friend and fondest admirer, Louis McHenry Howe. Secretary Howe was sufficiently recovered not to need his oxygen tent any longer, but is still too ill to be bothered with serious political news. Mrs. Roosevelt drove Invalid Howe from the White House to the Naval Hospital while the President returned to his work, appointed Raymond Bartlett Stevens of New Hampshire, one-time adviser to the Siamese Government, a member of the Tariff Commission; addressed the State directors of National Youth Administration; wrote Senator...
...members aged 18 to 40, confidently expected that President Roosevelt, their national secretary Son James Roosevelt, and 10,000 delegates would attend their second national convention in Milwaukee. Last week some 1,500 delegates showed up, but not President Roosevelt, busy with Congress in Washington, nor Son James, ill with a sore throat at Hyde Park. Sadly disappointed, but still hoping that Son Franklin Jr. might appear, the delegates sat down to listen to a speech by Pennsylvania's Governor George H. Earle. Midway in his speech a lanky youth of 19 stepped out on the flag-decked platform...
Richard M. Noyes, 16, of 1114 West Oregon street, Urbana, Ill.; University High School; son of William A. Noyes, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, University of Illinois; ranked second in his class, and was a class officer...
Allen E. Puckett, 16, of 1328 Otto boulevard, Chicago Heights, Ill.; Bloom Township High School; son of Roswell C. Puckett, Principal of Bloom Township High School; highest ranking boy in his class; co-editor of school annual, and a leader in school activities...
George W. Rothschild, 18, of 2142 Lincoln Park West, Chicago, Ill.; Francis W. Parker School; son of Edwin Rothschild, stock broker; had high scholarship ranking and was editor of the school paper...