Word: oval
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...actually on the couch during the White House talks, but sitting close by in the oval study was generally to be found last week a stocky, square-shouldered man of 46. Grey streaks his thin dark hair above a domed forehead. His nose is long and straight between round, ruddy cheeks, over a full-sized chin and small mouth. Mostly he listened but when he did speak between puffs of a cigaret, his voice was pleasantly rich and low. almost a diffident drawl. He was Raymond Moley. Officially he was there as an Assistant Secretary of State. Personally...
That evening after dinner while Mrs. Roosevelt and Daughter Ishbel were off at a dog show, the President and the Prime Minister settled in their chairs by an open fire in the upstairs Oval Room. Mr. MacDonald wanted to talk about War debts. Mr. Roosevelt wanted to talk about stabilizing the dollar and the pound. They had hardly felt out each other's mind and method before it was bedtime. The Prime Minister slept in what used to be Lincoln's Study. He recalled that when he was last at the White House it had been President Hoover...
...beginning of last week. It was not bad enough for him to go to bed or call in a doctor but he did spend two days away from his. executive office and get a prescription refilled at the Naval Hospital. He continued to transact public business in the Oval Room on the second floor of the White House which with books, easy chairs and marine prints he has fixed up as a study. Thither one noon last week he summoned the Press, 100 correspondents strong, to give them the most important "story" yet of his administration. Not in the memory...
...newshawks dashed from the Oval Room to spread tidings which sent the dollar slumping abroad, churned the stock market to 1933 highs,* ballooned commodity prices, startled Britain's MacDonald and France's Herriot in mid-Atlantic on their way to Washington, chilled conservative financiers with fear and revived the hopes of millions & millions of debt-ridden citizens who instantly imagined plenty of cheap money in their pockets. Reluctantly Secretary of the Treasury Woodin, a financial conservative, had to admit for the first time: "Yes, we're off the gold stand ard - for the time being...
Into the sunny oval room shuffled some 120 newshawks, the corps of eyes & ears through which the country sees its President from day to day. Behind a flat-topped desk sat Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his mouth stretched wide, his eyes half closed in a vigorous grin. He was smoking a cigaret in a long ivory holder. Behind the President stood his three secretaries, Col. Louis McHenry Howe, Marvin Hunter Mclntyre, Stephen Tyree Early. Miss Marguerite Lehand, his personal secretary, sat in the window ledge. Near his elbow sat his stenographer, Grace Tully, with pad & pencil. Another stenographer, Henry Kannee, occupied...