Word: porticoed
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...listened to the biggest professional farmer in the land, in the afternoon the convention had a talk from the biggest amateur farmer in the land. Standing on the south lawn of the White House, where Washington moppets traditionally roll Easter eggs, they heard Secretary Wallace introduce from the South Portico "the heart of America"-Franklin D. Roosevelt. When the joyous roaring ceased, the President complimented his audience on being "a pretty good-looking crowd" and, motioning behind him at members of the House Agriculture Committee, remarked that he had "a few members of Congress in captivity with me today...
...corn inviting him to attend the peace celebration of the Six Nations at Fort Niagara on Sept. 3. He shook the Redmen's hands and said that he was sorry but he thought he could not get there. Well satisfied, they trotted down the steps from the South Portico and walked a couple of blocks to the Willard Hotel to spend the night...
...chill, rainy night four days after President Roosevelt's inauguration, a group of newspapermen huddled under the White House portico, waiting for the proclamation which would keep every bank in the land closed for days. Dolefully, four of the men started to sing "Home on the Range." National Broadcasting Co. heard of their performance, persuaded them to sing their song over the radio, introduced them as the White House Portico Quartet.* The song and the singers got national publicity. President Roosevelt interrupted an important conference to listen to the program, afterwards telephoned the broadcasting studio and pretended...
Therefore one noon last week four eminent Belgians, who had traveled 2,500 miles across the sea, drove up to the White House portico. First to step down from his limousine was M. Emile Francqui, head of Belgium's largest bank, the Société Générale de Belgique. Next was M. Camilla Gutt, of Belgium's great Katanga Copper Company in the Congo. Third was their fellow Tycoon Etienne Allard and fourth was a distinguished young member of the Belgian nobility, Count Philippe d'Arschot. Escorted by Ambassador May and members...
...Cleveland with his wife dedicating a swimming pool for crippled children. Said Partner Lawson: "We put together the partnership in February 1933, and after a little more than a year we mutually decided we should dissolve. It just did not work as we had hoped." On the South portico of the White House the President's mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, surprised her son by presenting him with a portrait of herself wearing a black gown and a stole of sables. Present at the ceremony were only members of the household and the artist, Pole Tade Styka...