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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Good Show/' At dusk the files were still tramping by when the President broke off and returned to the White House to find a tea for thousands in progress on the main floor. Even some Republicans attended-Hoover Secretaries Hurley and Doak, "to pay respects," they explained. Avoiding the throng, President Roosevelt went up to the second-floor study where his whole Cabinet, confirmed a few hours before by the Senate, was assembled to be sworn in. Supreme Court Justice Cardozo, a New Yorker, administered oaths while the President sat at a desk and listened to the chorus...
...Still standing are the outer walls of Silesian sandstone and much of the interior, ornately marbled. France paid for the whole building as part of the Franco-Prussian War indemnity. Above the main door a grim stone figure of St. George frowns with the face of Iron Chancellor Bismarck...
When a mighty, sickening temblor rocked the northeast coast of Honshu, main island of the Japanese Empire, experienced seacoast folk shouted not "Jishin!" (earthquake) but "O Tsunami!" (big tidal wave) and streaked for the hills last week...
There are three main features which the residents of Adams House consider distinct advantages: its proximity to the Yard, its separate cuisine, and the swimming pool. The first is a distinct advantage to those having 12 o'clock and 2 o'clock classes on the same day. The second is an advantage at all times, and the third is a unique feature of the House. As to the rest of the plant, it is as well equipped with the usual squash courts, music rooms and library as the other Houses...
...brief explanatory talk in French. Tickets will be available for members of the University and Radcliffe in Robinson Hall Annex beginning Monday, March 13. Performances will be given on both days at 2.15, 4.15, 6.45, and 8.45 o'clock, and tickets will be void five minutes after the main film has begun...