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...citizens have already had opportunity to see most of the chief delegates. One by one they have come to Washington on the invitation of President Roosevelt to discuss their problems, pose for a ritual photograph in the White House portico while the Roosevelt smile grew progressively fainter...
...night last week NBC got the White House Portico Quartet to sing "Home on the Range'' over a network. The quartet: Roosevelt Secretary Marvin Mclntyre, United Press's Fred Storm, Chicago Tribune's John Boettiger, Universal Service's Edward Roddan.* President Roosevelt interrupted a White House conference on the National Recovery Act to listen in. When the singers finished, the President telephoned the broadcasting studio. Disguising his voice he got the quartet leader on the wire. Approximately the following dialog then took place...
...hours later, leaning on the arm of his naval aide President Roosevelt was out on the White House portico to welcome his guest as he drove up in a limousine. Mrs. Roosevelt was there too and Daughter Anna Roosevelt Dall and Major, the police dog, and Meggie, the Scotch terrier. "I'm awfully glad to see you here," cried the President as he squeezed the Prime Minister's hand. He greeted Miss MacDonald as "Miss Ishbel." All moved inside the White House to have tea after the most friendly and informal meeting between heads of States ever witnessed...
...moments after M. Herriot had been greeted in French by the President on the White House portico, a limousine drove up and out popped Canada's pious Premier Richard Bedford Bennett. Almost simultaneously Canada's Finance Minister Edgar Nelson Rhodes, in Ottawa, was announcing that Canada had ceased redemption of Dominion notes in gold...
...Easter Sunday the President, his wife and Son James went in the rain to the incompleted Washington Cathedral to worship. Next day President Roosevelt appeared briefly on the South Portico to watch the annual public White House egg rolling. He smiled, remarked: "There seem to be as many adults as there are children...