Word: lenroot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still has an old photograph inscribed. 'To my old side kick," signed "Franklin Roosevelt." He declined the job of Ambassador to Russia, or to Italy, or of Governor General of the Philippines, and elected in 1918 to run for Senator in Wisconsin. He was beaten by Republican Irvine Lenroot by a bare 2,500. So he returned to Washington to be a corporation lawyer (expert on the anti-trust laws) and "private diplomat...
First prize for costume went to five newswomen dressed as the Dionne quintuplets, with the Children's Bureau's new Chief Katharine Lenroot as their nurse. A battered Republican elephant took second; and the Three Little Pigs, one impersonated by Louis Howe's Secretary Margaret ("Rabbit") Durand were third...
...Presidential appointment of the week: Katharine F. Lenroot, daughter of one-time Republican Senator Irvine L. Lenroot of Wisconsin and assistant chief of the Labor Department's Children's Bureau since 1922; to be the Bureau's chief vice Grace Abbott, resigned...
...TIME, Oct. 28), John A. Kennedy of Universal News Service (Hearst) was awarded the Chester D. Pugsley prize of $1,000. Second prize went to Paul R. Mallon of the United Press who disclosed the Senate's secret roll call on the confirmation of onetime Senator Irvine Luther Lenroot of Wisconsin, as a judge in the U. S. Court of Customs & Patent Appeals...