Word: le
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four nights before he had cleared his White House desk, reeled off a Cabinet meeting, bantered his way through with a press conference, signed a batch of bills left by Congress and said good-by to his private secretary, Marguerite Le Hand, off for a holiday in Europe (see p. 30). Shortly before midnight the Presidential special pulled out of Washington. Next morning it halted in Manhattan, just long enough to pick up Mrs. Roosevelt, Son James & wife. Two hours later President & party reached New Haven...
Marguerite A. ("Missy") Le Hand, youngish, grey-haired private secretary to Franklin D. Roosevelt for the past 14 years, celebrated the beginning of her first extended vacation in four years by slipping into a bright plaid dress and boarding the S. S. Manhattan for Europe. With her on the six-week trip went Grace Tully, stenographer to the President. Said Private Secretary Le Hand : "There are lots of things I never know about until I see them in the newspapers...
...entertain the guests in the open air triangle formed by Kirkland, Eliot, and Winthrop Houses. The concert program will include a clarinet solo by George R. Shaw, 2nd '34, and guitar trio number by Atreus von Schrader, Jr. '34, Guy S. Hayes '34, and Frank W. Vincent, Jr. '34. Le G. R. Thurber '34, James T. Dennison '34, Francis F. Cary '34, and Von Schrader will make up a vocal quartet...
...without half trying, captained a cadet corps company, managed the football team, belonged to the Shakespeare Debating Society. One proud classmate recalls him now as the 'all-round outstanding member of his class." Midway in college he was thinking of Becoming a lawyer. But when it was over le decided to pick up some ready money by teaching history for a while in Grove City high school. He liked teaching. In a couple of years he had saved enough to go to Princeton for a master's degree. That got him an instructorship in economics at Purdue, which...
Northwestern University (Evanston Ill.) President Arthur Cutts Willard of the University of Illinois.... LL.D. Secretary of the Interior Harold Le Clair Ickes.... LL.D...