Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last month she invited the dancer, now Roberta Jonay to dance at the Press Party in the White House (TIME, June 7). Result: Miss Jonay got a job in the floor show at Washington's Shoreham. Ever-generous Mrs. Roosevelt insisted that her friend stay on under her great roof, sleeping in the Rose Room, taking her meals with the family, traveling out Connecticut Ave. every evening in a White House limousine to do her 15-minute turn at the Shoreham. Last week Roberta Jonay, bound for Broadway, was as morally certain of landing a good...
...visiting doctors told the President that they had carefully studied a two-volume survey which Miss Lape had published three days prior. Called American Medicine-Expert Testimony out of Court* these books contained the recommendations of 2,000 doctors for remedying the state of U. S. Medicine, including the difficulties of sick people in getting good medical services and the difficulties of good doctors in earning a decent living. Deliberately omitted from those questioned were doctors who might have an ax to grind, such as the executives and trustees of the American Medical Association...
...Gist of Miss Lape's survey, said Dr. Osgood, who volunteered as spokesman for the President's guests, was: 1) doctors want a Secretary of Health in the Cabinet, 2) doctors are willing to become executors of a Federal public health program which would look after the health of every U. S. inhabitant...
...time of Miss Ida Tarbell's History of the Standard Oil Company, Freeporters were amazed to see the picture of their Dr. Levingston printed [in July 1905 McClure's] as the father of John D. Rockefeller. Reporters called at the home but the Doctor was old and feeble and he refused to be interviewed...
...Business men (the largest group) at Bloomingdale were there because they were "hogs"' who cracked up trying to outdo Rockefeller. Another big group were reaping the just reward of philandering and boozing. ''Love nests rear nothing but 'cuckoos.' ' Then again, the hit-or-miss breeding of the human race "is largely to blame." His own breakdown occurred in 1929, after directorship of the Museum of the City of New-York, which he had worked ten years to found, was turned over to "a younger man from the wild and woolly West" (41-year...