Word: roome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal Housing Administration. Next month F. W. H. A. will start buying idle outlying land from tax-ridden owners, paying them $1 a lot and giving them an option to repurchase at any time at the same price. The Authority will set up on the land four-room prefabricated houses which are to cost $900 apiece and rent to Fort Wayne's poor at $2.50 a week. In return for relieving slum conditions, the State makes F. W. H. A. land and buildings taxfree. WPA labor will put the houses together, clear the land of present slum buildings...
...Supreme Soviet (parliament) last week put aside for the first time its traditional red banners and red bunting, convened in the onetime Throne Room of the Kremlin Palace, now freshly done over in pure white...
...sick room at Rochester, Minn. several weeks ago,* James Roosevelt received Writer Walter Davenport of Collier's to reply through him to Writer Alva Johnston's article "Jimmy Got It" in the Satevepost (TIME, July 4). Last week and this, Collier's published the Roosevelt reply, "I'm Glad You Asked Me," in two installments...
...light last week came a tale about Patient Roosevelt's stay in St. Mary's Hospital, Rochester: Among those curious to see James Roosevelt was a young nurse who made bold to enter his room at 6 a. m. while his night nurse was out writing her report. Waking the patient, the youngster popped a thermometer into his mouth, gazed her fill, removed the thermometer, marched out. When Patient Roosevelt asked his doctor if he must be wakened so early, the young nurse was discovered, fired-but soon given a job in another hospital...
Thus last week, with the pomp of a court circular, did Buchmanism-heretofore quartered in Brown's Hotel, London - announce the acquisition of famed 18th Century Lord Clive's 34-room house in swankest Mayfair. Minimum price in the neighborhood: $50,000. Dr. Buchman, born in unswank Pennsburg, Pa., will make Berkeley Square his home...