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...were all that was visible to the crowd below. Immediately below the portico were 7,806 invited guests, including the Roosevelt grandchildren (see cut);* in the Ellipse stood 3,000 more. The President gazed at the crowd, then lifted his eyes to the Washington Monument, and to the Jefferson Memorial beyond...
...Jack Kilpatrick, columnist for the Richmond News Leader: "The Saturday night crowds at Sixth and Grace look about the way they used to. The Hotel Jefferson is just about back in commission after that disastrous fire. . . . William C. Herbert succeeded Gordon Ambler as mayor...
...members were new and shiny. The old parliamentarians' briefcases were battered with use. A white-robed monk, a grey-haired Negro, a red-fezzed Arab and half a dozen women (where women never had a place before) were sprinkled through the Assembly. In the gallery sat U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery, British Ambassador Alfred Duff Cooper, Russian Ambassador Alexander Bogomolov. On a front bench sat General de Gaulle...
That night Candidate Dewey addressed the U.S. and a pack-jammed Chicago Stadium audience on "Honesty in Government." He took his text from Thomas Jefferson: "The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest." As a subtext he took the lead sentence of a P.A.C. pamphlet advocating Term IV: "politics is the science of how who gets what, when and why." Dewey's speech was a straightaway attack on the veracity of Franklin Roosevelt. He recalled the WPA vote scandals, the attempt to pack the Supreme Court...
...Letter. In Jefferson City, Mo., Clarence Tremaine posted the prescribed OPA price list in his tiny restaurant-on the ceiling...