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...four wheels of the First Lady's tan Buick coupe. On an "off the record'' vacation they were setting out to add more thousands to 35,000 miles the President's wife has travelled since March 4, 1933. First they scuttled westward into the mountains of West Virginia to inspect the work being done by the American Friends' Service Committee of Philadelphia among half starved children of mine families. The rich proceeds of Mrs. Roosevelt's radio appearances for Johns-Manville roofing and Simmons beds go to this feeding and fattening cause...
Next noon the three ladies reached Crossville, Tenn., drove to the top of Cumberland Mountain Plateau to inspect a subsistence homestead project. There indefatigable Mrs. Roosevelt declined an invitation from the Mayor of Rockwood to climb the Cumberland's Mt. Roosevelt.* Instead she drove until 8 p.m. to reach Berea, Ky., and a social project dear to her heart. She dined with Berea College's president, kindly, 63-year-old William James Hutchins, father of University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins. The elder Hutchins gives mountain boys and girls a higher education, helps them to earn their living...
...daily prize money. On the windy seacoasts they take turns riding on the windward side of the pack. One race was so swift and grim that after the finish a rider was reported to have bought a train ticket over the route so that he could inspect the scenery...
...investigated. Quicksilver, now selling at $75 per flask of. 76 Ib., was suggested as a good inflation hedge. Bernard E. ("Sell 'Em Ben") Smith, brash and jovial stockmarket operator, lately returned from a trip around the world full of good words for shellac and pepper. Though he personally inspected the habits of the Far Eastern lac beetle, he had apparently been influenced by a group of London speculators who call themselves the "Crusaders" and whose sworn purpose is to make the world "commodity conscious." Nothing much ever happens marketwise in either black or white pepper and nothing...
Favorite relief project of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt is the Subsistence Homestead (house & garden) for jobless miners at Reedsville, W.Va. There one day last week she arrived to inspect the first "Federal laboratory" and chat behind closed doors with the 50 families who compose the pioneer Homesteaders. Prevented by last-minute contract technicalities from moving into their new homes, the Homesteaders were nevertheless so grateful for their Promised Land that they appeared possessed of an almost religious fervor...