Word: robinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fell: "If they can take it, I can take it." Act III was the taking of the oaths. More than 20 minutes late the ex-President and ex-Vice President came out to the dripping inaugural stand. John Nance Garner was the first to make history. Senator Joseph T. Robinson administered the Vice Presidential oath. He answered with a vigorous, "I do!" Although twelve other men had stood up to be sworn in for a second term as President, only five had been reinaugurated as Vice President.-More unusual, Jack Garner became the first Vice President to take his oath...
Inside there had been no warning, but the ten passengers were strapped to their seats ready for the landing at Burbank. As Passenger Arthur Robinson recalled: "Suddenly the plane began to drop-drop. Then there was a terrible crash. My seat belt kept me in my seat. I didn't lose consciousness, but my leg and side hurt. I guess I was about the only one that wasn't knocked out." Passenger Robinson set off alone down the snow-spattered mountain, managed to stagger four miles to the Olive View Sanitarium despite a broken ankle. Inmates there...
...display at the Harvard School of Design in Robinson Hall is an exhibition of sketches and watercolors by Eliot F. Noyes '32. Most of the paintings were done in Iran at Persepolis--a group of palaces and terrace built by Darius and Xerxes about 500 B.C. The collection also includes subjects from Kashmir, India, Iraq, and Egypt. The paintings are watercolors of landscapes and mosques, and bazaar and native village scenes. They are free impressionistic pictures, boldly handled with lively colors...
David Mannes first came into the Metropolitan Museum to conduct promenade music for receptions. When, in 1918, Director Edward Robinson asked him to give a concert for soldiers & sailors, the Mannes Concerts began. Only 781 people went to hear him. He then got his musicians from the New York Symphony, now gets them from the Philharmonic and other orchestras, pays them regular union rates...
...everything it sold, that would be horrid news to U. S. foodmen. That the New-Orleans handbill might be the opening gun in just such a campaign was the dizziest speculation that occurred to food manufacturers. Another was that the handbills were intended as a gratuitous slap at the Robinson-Patman Act (against price discrimination). After foodmen had stewed for a full week in these possibilities, A & P's President Hartford disowned the cat that had popped out of his bag. From Manhattan he ordered all A & P district managers not to duplicate the New Orleans' district manager...