Word: pearson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other evidence adduced last week of Presidential tastes: 1) The President and Mrs. Roosevelt selected 32 paintings from the Public Works exhibit at the Corcoran Art Gallery to hang in the White House offices. His favorite was Winter Street by A. H. Pearson of Chicago. The President said none of the pictures shows despondency and anyone can tell at a glance what they represent. 2) At a convention of bandmasters in Toronto. Lieut. Charles Benter, conductor of the U. S. Navy Band, reported that the President's musical tastes were "pretty broad," that for relaxation he liked to hear...
...Pioneers will sally forth with: cox, Wendell J. Torbey '36; stroke, Walier W. Birge Jr. '35; 7, Frederick H. Poor, Jr. '34; 6, Henry G. Pearson, Jr. '34; 5, James L. Stuart '36; 4, Winthrop H. Lee '36; 3, Henry S. Miller '35; 2, Lawrence vonB. Nichols '35; bow, Edward C. Streeter...
Married. Countess Felicia Gizycka, 28, daughter of Eleanor Medill Patterson, editor of the Washington, D. C. Herald; and Dudley de Lavinge, 28, insurance man; in London. Countess Felicia's first husband was Drew Pearson, Washington correspondent...
...dymaxion, invented by Buckminster Fuller '17 and built by Phillip C. Pearson '18, has the appearance of an airplane without wings: it contains a Ford V-8 engine, and is supported by only three wheels, two in the front and one in the rear. The original dymaxion had a wooden body, and was wrecked in an accident on its maiden trip to Chicago. Its descendant, however, has an all steel body and cannot be smashed in, it weighs 3600 pounds, has a 182 inch wheelbase, and will turn in an 11 foot circle. One of the cars, which sell...
...Republica!" to a palm-thatched pavilion where the President and Foreign Minister Arturo Lograno entertained her elegantly. At San Juan, Puerto Rico, she hugged Mrs. James Bourne, wife of the Relief Administrator. At St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, she spent a day, went for an early morning swim with Governor Pearson, visited Negro huts, made a speech. At St. Croix she accepted a 40-year-old bottle of rum in honor of the fact that the Federal Government is soon to finance a $1,000,000 rum distillery and sugar plantation on the islands. Then back in Puerto Rico, she settled...