Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another rare item in the collection is a proclamation issued by President George Washington, January 1, 1795, setting February 18, 1795 as a national Thanksgiving day. Thanksgiving first became a national holiday as it is known today, in 1863, when Lincoln proclaimed a day following the battle of Gettysburg. Lincoln's successor, Andrew Johnson, in 1865 established Thanksgiving for the first time as a national harvest festival...
...rare item in the exhibit is an early original copy of the second newspaper established in America, the Boston "News-Letter," founded by John Campbell in 1704. As postmaster, this was Campbell's idea for avoiding the trouble of writing longhand news accounts to the governors of all the colonies, and it continued for 72 years. Being afraid of censorship by the authorities, Campbell steered clear of current colonial news and gathered his material from the London "Gazette." His news was consequently about six months...
James Bryant Conant, President of Harvard, for the first time has his name in the Boston Social Register. Prominent among the names missing from this year's edition are those of Mr. and Mrs. John Coolidge, the James Roosevelts, and John Davis Lodge, of Hollywood fame. . . .NEWS ITEM...
Your news item "Clouts from Clergymen" (TIME, Oct. 28). Are TIME readers to assume that the clergy is 100% anti-Roosevelt or has TIME adopted the "hand picked" method of publishing news...
MILK TO REPORTERS Explaining the report that came as milk to weary reporters, Roosevelt said he had attended the party for only a few minutes and left long before the fight began,. Lead stories on this item of interest are just as relevant to the case in question as the President's chances for re-election...