Word: roosevelt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wife of a new U. S. Representative from Illinois. Mrs. De Priest's husband is the first Negro to sit in Congress since 1900. She was the first U. S. member of their race to be entertained in the White House proper since Oct. 18, 1901, when President Roosevelt had the late Booker T. Washington at his luncheon table.* After that occasion there was such a socio-political commotion that President Roosevelt thought it best to explain that Booker T. Washington had called while the President was just finishing his lunch and had been invited into the dining room...
...citizen" self in Washington; to report with his colleague John Pierpont Morgan to President Hoover; to explain, as one economist to another, just what the Young Plan of readjusted reparations means to the U. S., as to world peace. First to bestow formal Kudos upon Hero Young was the Roosevelt Memorial Association, which last week voted him one of its three annual three-inch golden Distinguished Service Medals...
Three state governors will be among those present. They are Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 of New York; Governor W. Tudor Gardiner '14, of Maine; and Governor Frank G. Allen, of Massachusetts, who will attend ex officio, Governor Roosevelt is Chief Marshal of the Alumni and as such will lead the procession to Sever and take an active part in all the exercises. Governor Gardiner will serve as Marshal of his class...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Governor of New York: a statesman in whom is no guile...
Arthur P. Davis, Oakland, Calif., consulting engineer (he built famed Roosevelt Dam) for irrigation projects in Soviet Central Asia...