Word: townely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington last week, the senior officer of the U. S. was Charles Edison, Acting Secretary of the Navy. Every one above him was out of town. But more importantly active than Mr. Edison in Franklin Roosevelt's absence was Mrs. President Roosevelt, who went to bat cleverly in her column to defend an act of her husband's which had stirred the country to its grass roots: shifting Thanksgiving Day from the last Thursday in November (the 30th) to the next-to-last (TIME...
...when he departed in his big official Packard for a Michigan visit, he was fairly well rested. His nose was red, his freckles refulgent. He felt he had conscientiously obeyed the orders of his Chief, who had firmly told him: "Frank, I want you to get out of town [Washington]. . . ." But he could not relax entirely, for of all the top men in the U. S. Government, not excepting even the President, none was engaged upon tasks more pressing and important than Frank Murphy...
Work down town at Marshall Field...
...Festival, Dorothy Maynor thanked her hostess for a nice time, took the next train for Manhattan, where she lives with her mother (a Methodist minister's widow) in a small upper-West Side apartment. When she got home she started practicing for her first public recital, at Town Hall in November. Said she: "My week has been so exciting I can't believe it's true...
Last week, contriving to avoid all the fuss & feathers they could, Rob and Bill celebrated their 50th anniversary in Rochester banking, Rob as president of Rochester Trust (third largest in town with resources of $42,540,898), Bill as vice president of the Lincoln-Alliance Bank & Trust Co., largest in Rochester and one of the 100 largest in the U. S. (resources, $86,487,946). That night they sat in honor seats at separate country-club dinners, smiled at many a twin-crack and went home early...