Word: made
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anent your statement ". . . his [Lindbergh's] father, who died in 1933" [TIME, Sept. 25], I well remember that Charles Jr., an up-and-coming aviator, flew over the Lindbergh homestead and dropped his father's ashes several years before he made his well known solo flight to Paris...
...Grandfather Franklin Roosevelt last week came reports from Grandmother Eleanor Roosevelt that Grandson No. 5, John Roosevelt Boettiger, is "the most friendly, happy baby I have seen in a long while." Grandmother marveled at John's strength, made with him the most widely printed U. S. picture of the week...
Behind all this nationwide activity sat the woman who has made the American Red Cross her lifework, for 35 years its driving force. In 1904 Clara Barton's Red Cross was gallant, revered, but loosely knit and fundless. That was the year the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House said to a young Washington society leader: "You've been appointed to the executive committee of the Red Cross...
...last week, after a bracing yachting trip on the Potomac with Associate Justices Felix Frankfurter and Harlan F. Stone, the President made an announcement which sent the General Staff into a glad quickstep. His limited emergency proclamation last month gave him clear authority to increase the enlisted strength of Army, Navy, Marine Corps and National Guard, said the President; therefore he had the implied authority to spend the necessary money, and he intended to go ahead, ask Congress afterwards...
...delegates for preliminaries to the second, working week of their convention. By reflection from the glassy walls, the delegates saw themselves for what they were: mostly middleaged, fattening, "safe" gentlemen with good cigars. Any businessman would have been at home with them. For they were businessmen who had made, and proposed to preserve, careers in unionism. From them and from their typical President Green came no radical proposals, no departures from the prime strategy of A. F. of L.: to get along as well as possible with Business, preening the Federation as a more desirable alternative to John Lewis...