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Thirty feet above, behind the Ionic columns of the south portico, the small circle of great and near great began to form: Supreme Court justices, Cabinet members, close Presidential advisers, and their wives. Promptly at noon, at the time prescribed by law, the short and simple fourth-term inauguration began. The Marine Band, thin and brassy in the cold winter air, burst into Hail to the Chief...
With his irony aimed squarely at Senator Byrd (who did not want Term IV), the President made an announcement. The Jan. 20 inaugural would be a frugal, unpretentious little ceremony held on the south portico of the White House. Why, said Franklin Roosevelt happily, the whole thing could be done for about $2,000-a mere 10% of Senator Byrd's extravagant maximum...
...last week a rickety, hard-used little toy wagon, with most of the red paint scuffed off the magic word "Express" on its side, was parked casually at the base of the fat, towering northwest column of the White House front portico. Beside it rested a vehicular gadget best known to childhood as an "Irish Mail," a contraption very like a railroad handcar...
Churchill the Speaker. On Christmas Eve Winston Churchill stood bareheaded while Franklin Roosevelt, on the south portico of the White House, went through the annual ceremony of turning on the outdoor Christmas tree's lights before, some 2,000 spectators inside the grounds, more thousands outside. Then he joined the President in broadcasting Christmas greetings to the nation...
Died. William Mitchell Kendall, 85, architect; in Bar Harbor, Me. He was a designer of the old Madison Square Garden, Manhattan's Pennsylvania Railroad Station, Arlington Memorial Bridge in Washington, Harvard's Memorial Gates, the portico housing Plymouth Rock...