Word: nesbitt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Upstairs and downstairs and into the First Lady's chamber went two workmen last week, lugging shiny green holly wreaths, one for each window of the White House. Downstairs all was Christmas rush. Bookkeeper Henry Nesbitt listed stacks of early gifts; Housekeeper Mrs. Nesbitt thumbed over the State linen, bargained with tradesmen, checked the storeroom's loaded shelves of cans and bottled goods. The cook pirouetted with dignity around the 24-foot electric stove, carefully sniffed the game rack, where hung pheasants, quail, ducks, grouse, and woodcocks waiting till they were high enough for a President...
...Louis Ethelbert Whitsitt, a bright, brown-eyed Michigan lad with good schooling and a job, seemed headed in the right direction. Then, one night in 1933, he went dead wrong. With his big brother and two other fellows, he kidnapped and robbed a Detroit man named Joseph Nesbitt, watched one of the gang shoot the victim and leave him to die by the roadside...
Britain's cockney chanticleers had not yet started to crow in chorus. But one martial ditty (by Songwriters Max & Harry Nesbitt, Alec Daimler & Syd Green) hit the characteristic British cock-a-doodle...
When Willkie got back from France, where he spent several months defending court-martialed soldiers from army discipline, he got a job in the Firestone legal department at Akron, later joined the law firm of Mather & Nesbitt and became one of the attorneys for Northern Ohio Power & Light (now Ohio Edison Co.) and other "vested intersts" (the Willkie Indiana pronunciation). He also mixed in politics: debated against the Ku Klux Klan, spoke for the progressive doctrines of Bob La Follette, the elder, fought the nomination of William Gibbs McAdoo at the 1924 Democratic convention because of the Klan issue...
...Henry Nesbitt, a Hyde Park neighbor who became proficient at catering, is the White Housekeeper: orders meals for the President (he loves game, sea food), the boys (steaks, chops), exotic visitors (an Abyssinian Coptic who ate no flesh was a problem), hires & fires servants (for economy the Roosevelts cut the Hoovers' 32 down to 23). Already she has drafted tentative menus for Their Majesties: for lunch, sweetbreads; for dinner, capon...