Word: pine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Warm Springs last week President Roosevelt drove to nearby CCC Camp Meriwether. In the yellow pine mess hall he received a cake 18 in. tall, congratulated woodsters on having "the most artistic camp I have ever seen," and concluded: "I hope that Congress, when it convenes, will continue the Civilian Conservation Corps for another year...
...brought from Washington to be signed. When Acting Secretary Morgenthau rode beside the President, the wind wobbling both their pince-nez, the talk was of the Administration's embattled monetary program. Toward sundown the President would drive his guests up to his tight little white frame cottage on Pine Mountain to continue their discussions over the dinner table...
Died. Louis Jean Baptiste Lépine, 87, "The Little Man with the Big Stick," longtime (1893-1913) Prefect of the Paris Police; in Paris. He introduced bulletproof vests and sulphuric acid capsules (forerunner of tear gas): the Bertillon identification system: the "Mouqin merry-go-round," "sedative marches" and the "ambulance dodge"-ruses to keep ugly-tempered crowds from forming...
...apiece, changed his name to George Brown because no one would believe that Billy Hill (he was christened William Joseph) was not just a parody on hillbilly. Louis Bernstein, president of Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. urged Hill to go to New York where he wrote "They Cut Down the Old Pine Tree," "There's a Cabin in the Pines," "Louisville Lady" and "Have You Ever Been Lonely?", songs which made names for themselves but not for Billy Hill...
Only the Meiji would know. Firm in this conviction a spruce file of puzzled Japanese Army officers rode out from Tokyo one dawn last week to a pungent park of pine and camphor trees. They crossed a gurgling brook, entered a spotlessly clean quadrangle and faced with awe the Meiji Shrine, an unpainted wooden building, austere, impressive and, to Japanese, sublime...