Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's entry was made through the main addition to the old building, the front wall of which was left unchanged. He had a look at the new Cabinet room, much larger than the old. big enough to accommodate a meeting of the 34 members of the National Emergency Council. Then he passed through a new corridor in which was a stairway leading to the floor below and a side entrance. The stairway was supposed to be a secret exit for Presidential callers who did not want to be stopped and quizzed by the Press in the main lobby...
Before going to his own office, the President wanted to see the rest of the building, and Gus Gennerich rolled him around the main floor?through Louis Howe's office with its pale pistachio green walls (about which the President's No. 1 secretary grumbled softly); through the office of Secretary Howe's Secretary Margaret Durand (whose nickname is "Rabbit"); across the vestibule where Captain Clarence L. Dalrymple and Lieutenant Larry Seamen of the White House uniformed police force stand guard to pass legitimate visitors, turn back cranks. The President peeked into the new room set aside for White House...
With a month of private life left him before he becomes Pennsylvania's first Democratic Governor in 40 years, rich, socialite George Howard Earle of Philadelphia's swank "Main Line" last week...
...many years the talented Waugh family has lived in Provincetown, Mass. Son Coulton is a ship painter & illustrator and nautical expert. Daughter Gwenyth, a costume designer, is married to Artist James Floyd Clymer. The combined Waughs own 13 houses in Provincetown, operate on a section of Main Street known as Waughville, the Ship Model Shop, the Hooked Rug Shop & Hookery. As a hobby Artist Waugh likes carpentry, gardening and making souvenir boxes of sea shells. His prides are a pâpiermaché castle he once built for his children and a chandelier made of old whale bones...
...Joel is condemned to live with Grandmother Harris. She burns his Shakespeare, she heats him, she drives him into the arms of Lettie. The underpaid maid-of all work. In despair at his iniquity Jeel appeals to Jenny. Jenny money seventy-five dellars from a Junior Leaguer on the main street of Fall River and sends it to him. He is about to escape when he learns Lettie is with child. Heroic little Joel gives her Jenny's money and resolves to stick it out. It is these three children who find themselves faced with the problem of reconciling...