Word: sundays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Church on Sunday, drives over his ancestral acres, an address to the local Improvement Association, a picnic on the estate of Squire Henry Morgenthau Jr., open house with family and guests coming & going-these were things that served last week to remind Squire Roosevelt of Hyde Park that he was on vacation from his job. But vacation or no vacation, he was still President of the U. S., still a practicing politician half of whose acts and more than half of whose hospitality was grist for newshawks...
...Bill Roper he organized the Woodrow Wilson Independent League. After the War, during which he investigated munition plants for the Department of Justice, he tried several unsuccessful business ventures, hit a low in 1926 as investigator for a religious group prosecuting concessionaires at the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial Exposition who broke Sunday closing laws. The following year he joined forces with WillB Hadley and his rise began...
Early in Depression, evincing a nicer regard for the feelings of their fellow citizens than their niece Barbara Hutton, Mr. & Mrs. E. F. Hutton cut down on their more spectacular extravagances. Not mentioned so frequently in Sunday supplements were their Long Island estate, their Adirondack retreat, their 16,000-acre preserve in South Carolina, their Manhattan penthouse or their Palm Beach home. Mr. Hutton, who maintained the Hussar, world's biggest sailing yacht, came out strongly for the commissioning of laid-up yachts as a means of increasing employment. His wife, broadening her philanthropies to include the Marjorie Post Hutton...
...mother is sister to Christian of Denmark and Haakon of Norway. One great aunt was Alexandra of Britain, another Dagmar, Tsarina of Russia. But no Queen ever lived more simply. All Brussels had seen Astrid time & time again wheeling her own baby carriage along the boulevards on a Sunday morning. Young Leopold as Crown Prince had gone several times to Stockholm to propose to her, traveling in a third-class coach to keep his incognito. There, after their engagement was announced, they used to sit in the public park holding hands...
Atlantic Highlands, N. J.: "Sunday school classes will not be held here tomorrow and opening of public schools was delayed a week until Sept. 9 at the request of the Board of Health as precaution against infantile paralysis. . . . One case of infantile paralysis has been reported...