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...Speaker of the House, and a talk with David Lilienthal about TVA. President Roosevelt ended in highest spirits a First Administration which had begun amid national gloom. At the Speaker's dinner he leaned toward Maine's Senator Frederick Hale, solemnly declared that the chief of protocol had had great difficulty in seating the evening's guests because of the presence of the "Ambassador from Maine." At his press conference next day a jesting newshawk asked if the Navy's two new battleships would be named "Maine" and "Vermont." The grinning President replied that...
...countries to sign a treaty for immediate consultation among all in case of war anywhere in the world; 2) He secured similar unanimous adoption of a declaration of Inter-American solidarity, making the Monroe Doctrine no longer one-sided but 21-sided; 3) The three-year-old Anti-Intervention protocol, under which intervention by an American state in the affairs of another is "inadmissable," was rousingly reaffirmed...
...rich and pious Mrs. Nicholas Frederic Brady, the Roman Cardinal had met the rich and great, pagan and Protestant as well as Catholic. More than one socialite had been so jittery about what to wear that hurried inquiries had been sent to the State Department's Division of Protocol & Conferences, which stipulated morning coats, long-sleeved and high-necked frocks. Many a great lady got a new thrill as she curtsied, kissed the Cardinal's ring. For everyone present well knew that this lean, smiling Italian prelate may well be the next Pope...
...days later the Navy, more interested in expediency than protocol, rushed Miss Marsh to the shipyard, had her send the Fanning down the ways in the teeth of last week's blinding gale. This time the official guests were inside the shipyard gates, the strikers outside...
Behind the obvious work of remaking the Yard into a theater worthy of Harvard's jubilee, there was an amount of detail and protocol that can scarcely be imagined. On an occasion when correctness must be the First Commandment there was a discouraging lack of precedents to follow. Harvard had never before played host in such lavish fashion, and the rules had to be made up as the game went along. It is certain that Mr. Greene on several occasions must have longed to sit down and write a letter beginning, "Dear Emily Post...