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During the War of 1812, when British soldiers were firing Washington, a group of invaders arrived before the Patent Office, ready to apply the torch. Out on the portico strode Superintendent William Thornton, puffing and glowering. Bellowed he: "This is the emporium of the arts and sciences of America. Don't burn it!" The British commander stared, saluted, led his troops away...
...them, thanked them and went indoors. "We want Roosevelt," chanted the crowd. After a time Mrs. Roosevelt and Marvin Mclntyre came out, beamed some more, waved, retired. After a time Franklin Roosevelt came out on the arm of his son James, walked from side to side of the portico answering greetings. He had to make a second and a third appearance before the crowd would go away...
...nation's movie screens a cinema sequence describing the Presidency in intimate visual detail, including many shots of the White House upstairs as it now looks during the occupancy of the Franklin D. Roosevelts. For the first time since Lincoln, the public can look out through the front portico from the upper hall, out to the Monument from the President's Study, around the Study at Mr. Roosevelt's ship models and family portraits...
Promptly at 9:30 a. m. a bugle sounded through the rainswept yard. Alumni rallied to 56 flags flying over their respective Class assemblies, began to march four abreast to the exposed and sopping seats of the Tercentenary Theatre. From the broad portico of Widener Library to their equally sopping seats on the stage filed the President of Harvard, Massachusetts' Governor James Michael Curley, Massachusetts' Senior Episcopal Bishop William Lawrence, 62 foreign and domestic scholars who were to receive honorary degrees. Also on hand was a Federal Commission authorized by Public Resolution No. 88 of the last Congress...
Speaking from the portico of white-pillared Monticello on a hilltop five miles out of Charlottesville, he did not even recall that Thomas Jefferson had been the Founder of the Democratic Party, praised him instead as the champion of freedom. Only the loftiest of allusions to the political present were there in the President's cry of the Founding Fathers: ''Theirs were not the gods of things as they were, but the gods of things as they ought to be. They used new means and new models to build new structures." Nor could any but the rudest...