Word: snow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Assessments reduced the tax valuation of President Roosevelt's town house at No. 49 East 65th St. from $170,000 to $165,000. ¶ The President and Mrs. Roosevelt held the fourth of their state receptions for officials of government departments. Among the guests who arrived in a snow storm was Mrs. Nicholas Longworth. She had on a set of gold Hindu earrings in the shape of cornucopias, a red-gold chain about her neck from which dangled a green-gold frog fashioned by the Chiriqui Indians...
...lawyer he was bound not to betray the confidence of his air mail clients. At Senator Black's suggestion he agreed to wire his clients for permission to open his files. Two days later he calmly admitted to the Committee that the evening before during a heavy snow storm, Colonel Lewis Hotchkiss Brittin, president of Northwest Airways, and Gilbert Givvin, secretary to the President of Western Air Express, had gone to his office and with his consent and assistance taken away papers which the Senate wanted. Then followed his arrest. At Mr. Black's request the Senate cited...
Pausing occasionally to shake the snow out of her bobbed black locks, Mrs. Jean Springstead Whittemore of Matfield Green, Kans., vivacious Democratic Committeewoman from Puerto Rico and for ten years head of the English Department of Puerto Rico University, fairly crowed over her appointment as collector of customs at San Juan. She made no secret of the fact that she had put the political screws to Postmaster General Farley in an unsuccessful attempt to get the governorship for herself...
...transcon- tinental system because the Denver & Salt Lake did not run to Salt Lake City or anywhere near it. Banker Moffat had spent all his money throwing the road over Rollins Pass, 11,600 ft. above sea level. Even when he got his tracks over the top, snow drifts would often force Denver & Salt Lake to shut down for weeks at a time. Now owned by Denver & Rio Grande, the road pierces the Continental Divide through the Moffat Tunnel at an elevation of only 9,000 ft., coasts gently down the western slope of the Rockies to its western terminus...
...better publicized House Masters was winding up what had apparently been a rather violent argument with a strange chauffeur as we passed by the other day. With a parting fling, the Master shoved his pipe between his teeth and stomped off toward his Lodgings. The chauffeur turned to a snow shoveller nearby and inquired, "Who's that guy?" "Hum? Oh, he's the boss," the shoveller replied. The chauffeur eyed the retreating figure of the Master resentfully, and seemed to be weighing something in his mind. Then he turned to the shoveller again: "I'll bet you a hundred dollars...