Word: norman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Nantucket around Cape Cod, across Massachusetts Bay to Norman's Woe ("It was the schooner Hesperus") and Gloucester, behind Cape Ann, through Casco Bay and up the jagged coast of Maine toward Eastport, Franklin Roosevelt last week piloted his 45-ft. Amberjack II on the sportiest, saltiest vacation the country had ever watched its President take. He dressed in old flannel trousers and a grey sweater under oil skins. He did not bother too much about shaving. Sun and spray tanned his face, widened his grin. He smacked over codfish balls, baked beans, brown bread. And even...
...spend a brief hour with her husband. Then she motored on toward Campobello, N. B., the President's destination. Son James took the Bernadou back to Boston to vote as a delegate in Massachusetts' Repeal convention. Scheduled to return on the Bernadou was Ambassador-at-Large Norman H. Davis, just back from the Geneva Arms Conference. He and the President would talk things over as the Amberjack II cruised north into colder weather...
...ignored Australia? By the time newshawks seriously put that question Uncle Henry was already a wheat hero, cackling to everyone his best anecdotes about the days when President Wilson sent him as Wartime Ambassador to Turkey and such yarns as the one about the time he caught Governor Montagu Norman of the Bank of England "with his vest unbuttoned." (Governor Norman, lolling back with unbuttoned vest, refused to loan an additional ?1,000,000 to Mr. Morgenthau's Greek Refugee Settlement Commission until reminded that the Greek Government could withdraw a ?2,000,000 gold deposit from the Bank...
...same day last week Premier Edouard Daladier received at 10:30 a. m. President Roosevelt's special "Disarmament Ambassador." ever-optimistic Norman H. Davis, and Britain's Air Minister, florid Lord Londonderry. After chatting through lunch and all afternoon, the statesmen shook hands in friendly disagreement...
Engaged. William Stewart Thomas, 21, son of Socialist Norman Mattoon Thomas: and Mary Gabrielle Campbell, 20, Manhattan socialite. Engaged. John Paschall Davis, 24, son of U. S. Ambassador-at-large Norman H. Davis: and Evelyn Ames, 23, socialite daughter of Professor Oakes Ames, Harvard botanist...