Word: mount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steps soon came a slender young couple smiling gaily at the beaming President. Premier & Mme Paul van Zeeland of Belgium were honored and delighted to meet Franklin Roosevelt. A few minutes later they were all three motoring together to the waterfront to board the Potomac and cruise down to Mount Vernon...
...trade treaty, for that was all signed, sealed and put into effect two years ago. Still he found enough to talk about with the President under the awning on the deck of the Potomac (except for a brief interval while he and Mme van Zeeland went ashore for a Mount Vernon wreath-laying) to talk all day. enough to keep him up to the small hours of the morning still talking to the President after a state dinner that night. And next morning when Secretary Hull returned from receiving a degree at Yale, lively M. van Zeeland trotted next door...
...Mount Holyoke College (So. Hadley, Mass...
...LL.D.'s apiece went to Cordell Hull (University of Pennsylvania and Yale), New York's Special Racket Prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey (Tufts and the University of Michigan), new President Frederick Harold Stinchfield of the American Bar Association (Bowdoin and Bates), retiring President Mary Emma Woolley of Mount Holyoke (Bucknell and Columbia), RFChairman Jesse Holman Jones (Temple and New York University), John Gilbert Winant, onetime chairman of the Social Security Board (Oberlin and Knox). G-Man John Edgar Hoover accepted an Sc.D. from Kalamazoo College and an LL.D. from Westminster College (Fulton...
Chairman Eaton has spared no expense to beautify his Park. At the foot of Mount Forest Lawn is an enormous marble group called Mystery of Life, at its top an 87-ft. Tower of Legends. Over the threats and legal objections of California morticians, Forest Lawn was the first large cemetery in the U. S. to install its own mortuary. There is also an Administration Building, copied from an English manor house and full of antiques, a flower shop, a crematory where last year 16% of the dead were received and a towering $4,500,000 Mausoleum-Columbarium, with...