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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Schodack, N. Y. Mrs. Elizabeth Rhoda, 102, was too infirm to go out and vote for Hoover. The President wrote her: "I am deeply touched. . . . I will take the will for the deed." ¶ As a little girl Mrs. George Carleton Beal, 75, of Manhattan, once sat in Abraham Lincoln's lap. Since then she has always voted straight Republican. Said she: "But I'm for Roosevelt this time. What I want is a man of action. . . ." ¶ Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, famed feminist, declared for Hoover: ''This is no time to make over human society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Politicules | 11/14/1932 | See Source »

...away to school, for the first time the boys & girls separate. But now you begin to recognize them as individuals. Bernard is happy-go-lucky, lovable; Louis is cold, snobbish, ashamed of his Australian accent; Neville is shyly passionate. Jinny is an attractive little animal; Susan fierce, proud; Rhoda is ungainly, helpless, doomed to hopelessness. After school Bernard and Neville go to the University; Louis's fortunes need him in business. Jinny takes to London society like a duck to water; Rhoda hates it; Susan goes home to be a country girl. As the sun climbs through the heavens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: G. B. S. & E. T. | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

...drink what he pleases and furthermore to enjoy the company of any lady or ladies he sees fit, as I know he is a good judge. I want him to enjoy life while he can as I know he is going to be dead a long, long time.-Mrs. Rhoda Hood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 6, 1931 | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

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