Word: robert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back at the White House, tea became a New Deal question bee. Secretaries Hopkins, Wallace and Perkins were there; Robert Fechner (who promised the King a treatise on CCC), FHA's Stewart McDonald (who got on with the Queen immediately after telling her his family came from Skye). A. F. of L.'s William Green went (but C. I. O.'s John Lewis declined). Everyone was impressed by both the King's and the Queen's interest in U. S. housing. Mrs. Roosevelt wrote in her column: "It was interesting to me to find...
...President, went back as Chief in 1930 by President Hoover's appointment. Washington insiders last week predicted that, if Franklin Roosevelt must pick a new Chief Justice and follows precedent by picking from the field, his choice will lie between Frank Murphy and Robert Houghwout Jackson. If he promotes a Court member, they said, the lucky man will be either Felix Frankfurter or the Court's baby, William Orville Douglas...
...zone without a military pass and shall never knowingly commit the same error in the future in any Japanese war zone in China. Any information I may have got since May 25 will never be transmitted to the Chinese side." Despite the intervention in Tokyo of British Ambassador Sir Robert Craigie, Lieut. Colonel Spear was still in prison...
Last week Biologist John Robert Raper of Harvard turned up with something new under the scientific sun-a clear demonstration of the function in plants of hormones which are not growth hormones but sexual. The host: Achlya ambisexualis, a minute water fungus which Dr. Raper discovered some time ago in the Charles River...
Maurice Richard Grosser learned to read Homer and hunt squirrel under the tutelage of the late William Robert ("Old Sawney") Webb, white-bearded, tobacco-chewing Confederate veteran, classicist and schoolmaster in Bell Buckle, Tenn. "Old Sawney's" star pupil, Grosser entered Harvard in 1920 with the highest-in-the-U. S. college entrance marks in mathematics and Greek. Of Art he was more innocent than the youngest dauber in a modern progressive school. In 1922, when he was a restless sophomore, a leering classmate urged him to go to an art class in South Boston, because there he might...