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...American citizens," announced that his Government had no intention of intervention. ¶ President Roosevelt transferred another career diplomat when he appointed white-crested Charles Stetson Wilson, now Minister to Rumania, to be Minister to Jugoslavia. ¶ After a week in Washington, President Roosevelt planned to return to Hyde Park to finish his vacation. Over Labor Day week-end he would cruise back to the Capital aboard Vincent Astor's big white Nourmahal...
Ways & means of "applying the heat" to the NRA campaign began to crop up in the news. At Hyde Park President Roosevelt issued an executive order which permitted cancellation of all government contracts with non-NRA manufacturers. In Manhattan Postmaster General Farley talked of prosecuting violators of NRA agreements under the postal fraud statute. In Washington Relief Administrator Harry Lloyd Hopkins announced that the Blue Eagle would get all his spending money. The boycott raised its menacing head when General Johnson inaugurated a "Buy Now" campaign with the buying to be done exclusively from NRA members. To a Baltimore utility...
...national concern; if he cracked, the whole NRA campaign might go under. His eyes were swollen from lack of sleep. Flashlamps were making him flinch. His temper was running short. President Roosevelt had to command him to get a night's sleep when he flew to Hyde Park fortnight ago (TIME, August 14). Even the fatherly New York Times last week advised him to "ease...
...Lucille Robinson of Des Moines: the women's Western golf championship; by beating U. S. Champion Virginia Van Wie 6 & 5 in the final; at the Oak Park Country Club near Chicago...
Preventive Dentistry, beginning in childhood, was the convention's keynote. Chief keynoter was Dr. Arthur Davenport Black, whitehaired & mustached dean of Northwestern University's Dental School, president of the Centennial Congress. In Chicago's Lincoln Park stands a statue of his father, Dr. Greene Vardiman Black, called the "Father of American Dentistry." At the last Chicago Centennial Dental Congress, held during the Fair of 1893, the elder Black presented dentists with their first nomenclature...