Word: roosevelt
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...responsibility and reward, the three "biggest" elective offices in the U. S. are: 1) President of the U. S.; 2) Governor of the State of New York; 3) Mayor of the City of New York. Job No. 2 sometimes leads on to Job No. i (Van Buren, Cleveland, Roosevelt). Sometimes it does not lead there (Hughes, Smith). From Job No. 3, however, since the rechartering of New York City (1898), no man has advanced from...
Head Usher Irwin Hood Hoover of the White House warmly greeted the young man whom he well remembered as Archie Roosevelt...
Among the guests invited were Speaker Longworth and his popular, influential wife, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, onetime "Princess Alice" of the White House. Great is Mrs. Longworth's political prestige, great her social power, independent her behavior. She sent Mrs. Meyer her regrets, making it clear that she declined to sit below Mrs. Gann. Not to be outdone, Mrs. Gann and the Vice President, likewise stayed at home that evening...
Leslie Mortier Shaw, Roosevelt's Secretary of the Treasury (1902-07), wrote the committee: While Secretary of the Treasury I remained ... an active producer of farm products of many kinds which made me interested in trade and commerce. . . . I acquired a half-interest in a copartnership and became the largest stockholder in a corporation . . . both interested in state and interstate commerce. . . . The fact that we had to sell what we produced did not change the nature of our business from that of producer to that of trade or commerce. ... I was familiar with the statute, the manifest purpose...
Lady's Endurance. Elinor Smith, 17, entered a Bellanca monoplane at Roosevelt Field, L. I., took off, arranged the controls as best she could (her stabilizer went out of order) and settled down to read Tom Sawyer while soaring and soaring 600 ft. above the airport. She stayed there all afternoon, all night, all the next morning, part of the next afternoon. When she alighted she had established a new solo endurance flight record for women: 26 hrs., 21 min. 32 sec.-4½ hrs. more than the previous record (Louise McPhetridge Thaden of California). Miss Smith told about...