Word: roosevelt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years past, the ushers for the affairs have been picked at random from the students. This season, however, they are to be selected through James Roosevelt 30, who has been placed in charge of ushers at the tens...
...shrewd method employed by one Cornelius J. Donovan, 54, confirmed criminal, to effect a swindle in Manhattan which even the police praised for its ingenuity. The great man whose name, town house and butler played unwitting parts in the crime was New York's Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The jewelmart was Fifth Avenue's fashionable Black, Starr & Frost. The salesman who gave up his card to the persuasive purchaser was one Thomas Patterson. The rings were two, valued at $800 and $750, containing diamonds set in platinum...
...museum, marveled at the "Hall of the East" in which 100 ritual lights burned before a Tibetan shrine. The audience included turbanned Indians, grave Chinese, eager U. S. intellectuals, a brown woman with gems fastened in her nose, a plump white woman wearing a jingling Colombian Indian costume. Kermit Roosevelt dropped his eyes against curious stares. Natacha Rambova, white turbanned and weighted with gold invited the avid to her studio. Esoteric prattlers shook the Professor's hands and looked for cheese wafers to nibble. There were no refreshments...
...years past, the ushers for the affairs have been picked at random from the students. This season, however, they are to be selected through James Roosevelt '30, who has been placed in charge of ushers at the teas...
...Roosevelt idea of his job, as approved by President Hoover: to be not merely Governor of Porto Rico but U. S. Ambassador to the Caribbean...