Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Grim days for Mr. Ickes were gay days for Dr. Tugwell. The Columbia economist's hair, greying when he went to Washington, has now turned definitely silver but the lines of care which go with such a change are strikingly missing from his handsome, young face. Last week the Tugwell eyes were shining more brightly than ever at the prospect of a golden opportunity...
...Rested by his recent seaside holiday, mellow old George V last week felt fit as a Stradivarius for his exhausting Silver Jubilee which commences May 6. Shushing the royal physicians, who favored further rest, the King-Emperor insisted on doing two major chores...
...been announced that Edward of Wales would perform the chore to spare his parents, held the first two courts of the year at Buckingham Palace. Irma, spouse of Jesse Isidor Straus, U. S. Ambassador to France, was presented in what her dressmaker called "a gown of ice-blue silver lame of streamline cut." At a hint from the Queen most debutantes and dowagers omitted lipstick, mascara, rouge. Since Buckingham Palace was distinctly chilly, some of them grumbled at the Lord Chamberlain's requirement that they appear in decollete. Not to be intimidated, several elderly English ladies harassed the Lord...
...they have now, dull, finical Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, ninth Earl of Bessborough. Last week Governor-General Bessborough, wife & daughter were in western Canada on a "farewell tour." By all etiquet, his successor should not have been named until after Bessborough finishes presiding at the King's Silver Jubilee ceremonies in Canada. But George V's popularity in his dominions is more important to the Government than Bessborough's personal feelings. Therefore, last week plain John Buchan was named Governor-General...
When other methods seem to fail, President Roosevelt likes to send his lieutenants into the land to rally the sagging morale of U. S. businessmen with strong language. First it was Secretary of Commerce Roper, then Donald Richberg who tried to soothe the business jitters by loud strumming on silver-lined harps. Last week President Roosevelt selected as his newest goodwill ambassador Securities & Exchange Chairman Joseph Patrick Kennedy, dispatched him to Manhattan where business gloom is currently thickest. There in an address to 1,200 bankers, brokers and business executives at a luncheon of the American Arbitration Association, Mr. Kennedy...