Word: suppers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the concert Yehudi had a birthday supper with his family and a few close friends. When he had gobbled his chicken salad and his ice cream & cake he was dispatched to bed. Two days later, for a special treat, he was taken to see In the Pasha's Garden...
Those three days were spent in careful preparation. First the President had the dozen top men of House and Senate to the White House where supper was spread for them. Over the coffee cups Host Roosevelt broached the subject of new monies for relief when present funds are exhausted (about Feb. 10). He intimated that it ought to be quite simple to transfer, $880,000,000 of unexpended funds from the RFC and other departments, enough to tide the Relief Administration over until a $4,000,000,000 work relief program could be started. He also dropped a word...
...moves when the State appoints him Governor of the privately-owned Bank of France looks and smells like a miser's snuggery. Last week the Bank of France's fusty servants, aging pensioners of the world's second largest gold hoard, gloomed darkly over their frugal supper. Their beloved master since 1930, M. Clement Moret, the National Tightwad and, as such, a national hero, had just been kicked upstairs from Governor of the Bank of France to Honorary Governor. He was going to receive the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, and soon a lesser tightwad...
...losses with a sweeping victory over Battery L of the 241st Coast Artillery. The score was 888-854 in a ten man match, in which ten shots were fired prone and ten off hand. Colonel Nathaniel C. Nast '07, of the National Guard, who sponsored the match, donated a supper of coffee and doughnuts to both teams after the firing was over. The high five men for Harvard were: George Matteson '36, 187, Parkman D. Howe '37, 182, Malcolm S. M. Watts '37, 179, William H. Cox '38, 172, and Gilbert B. Ayres...
...famous Canadian Pacific hostelry has especially invited students and alumni of Harvard University to share in the season's gaiety. Supper dances are scheduled for every evening, to the music of an 11-piece dance orchestra and an eighteenth century concert orchestra...