Word: sevenths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...genuine Colonial house is in Alexandria, Va. The moderne office is at U. M. W. headquarters on the seventh floor of Washington's Tower Building...
Without debate, without dissent the Senate last week confirmed six appointments to the new Federal Reserve Board submitted by President Roosevelt. The seventh appointee is yet to be chosen. Three days later the old Board, set up by Woodrow Wilson 22 years ago, passed out of legal existence. Though their terms had not expired, four members of the old Board were retired without pensions. At 67 John Jacob Thomas, a Roosevelt appointee, returns to his farm and his law practice in Nebraska. George Roosa James, 69, wise and crotchety, goes back to Memphis to train his son in the wholesale...
...mail vans to E. R. (Edvardus Rex). So desultory is this job that during the 26 years of George V's reign not all the postal vans were equipped to correspond with his name, and last week many still marked E. R. for the Seventh Edward were ordered left as they are for the Eighth. George V, when the Royal Mint was preparing to strike his coins, commanded: "Make a big V. I should not like to be mistaken for another George"-the reprehensible characteristics of the first "Four Georges" having been popularly dwelt upon by William Makepeace Thackeray...
...artists know that the best way to study the manner and character of an artist is through his unretouched drawings. And drawings take up little room. Most of the pictures that Mrs. Rockefeller has bought for her own enjoyment are crowded into her specially lighted gallery on the seventh floor of the old Rockefeller town house in West 54th Street...
Finally, one day last week, Dr. Martin R. Hoffman, psychiatrist from a nearby hospital, announced: "She will wake up tomorrow, because in repeated conversations all around her she has constantly heard it said it is the Lord's will that she waken on that day [the seventh]. If I had been able to convince her today that it was the day, or that we were alone in the room, she probably would have awakened immediately...