Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your May 15 issue of TIME you stated that OHIO has produced seven out of our country's 32 Presidents. I think that TIME has made one of its few errors in making this statement. Try as I will, I can find only the following six occupants of the White House originating in Ohio. They are, in order of their administrations: Wm. H. Harrison, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, William H. Taft and Warren G. Harding...
...Japanese. His faculty for golfing in dignity and black shorts necessarily appeals to a people to whom dignity is everything. His impressively good clothes, grey hair, dark mustache, lithe frame support a slightly British aura of raj, accompanied by a Yankee capacity for work. He drives his embassy staff seven hours a day (a frightful stint for the Foreign Service). Many an Ambassador lets his staff do the handwork. Joe Grew peck-types his own reports, producing documents highly respected at the State Department and the White House...
...wheat subsidy, the Dominion budget), something brand-new to Canada and a prerogative of the King-Emperor almost forgotten in England. At each the King nodded, and the deputy clerk droned "His Majesty doth assent." But as a warning that no individual may supersede Parliament, Ottawa's seven old men of the Supreme Court filed into the Senate chamber and plumped down on a big circular woolsack, from which they could symbolically keep an eye on everyone. After that Their Majesties received the 70-odd reporters covering their trip...
Sixth Day. In Toronto Monday noon, Their Majesties met the only Canadians who are perhaps more famous than themselves-the Dionne Quintuplets. What happened history will enjoy longer than any other episode of this trip. With Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, Oliva Dionne and wife and seven of the eight other Dionnes, the Quintuplets were bustled into the Lieutenant Governor's room of the Parliament Building. All five wore puffy, white organdie court frocks and poke bonnets, and each wore her favorite flower in her hair. Already astounded by the miracle of their first train trip and a ride through...
...both houses, 13 are under 20, 284 are under 30, 831 under 40, seven over...