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...throat kept President Roosevelt indoors the beginning of last week. It was not bad enough for him to go to bed or call in a doctor but he did spend two days away from his. executive office and get a prescription refilled at the Naval Hospital. He continued to transact public business in the Oval Room on the second floor of the White House which with books, easy chairs and marine prints he has fixed up as a study. Thither one noon last week he summoned the Press, 100 correspondents strong, to give them the most important "story...
...approve the election. Two stated meetings of the Board remain on the calendar this year, on Monday, May 8, and on Commencement Day, Thursday, June 22. The fact that the Commencement Day meeting is ordinarily a short and perfunctory one makes it somewhat doubtful if the Overseers would transact any important business on that...
...nothing which could be called a program of what his Government intends to do for and with Germany. From now until April Fool's Day (on which the new Reichstag will convene) Chancellor Hitler intends to rule virtually as a dictator. According to Nazi henchmen, the Reichstag will transact only two pieces of business: it will give Germany a new national flag, will then "adjourn indefinitely...
Like an orphan living around with relatives, the Supreme Court has had many a makeshift home since it first sat, with no business to transact, in the Royal Exchange, New York City, in 1790. That same year with the rest of the Government it was moved to Philadelphia where it occupied a back room on the second floor of City Hall. In 1800 it was transferred to Washington and assigned a clerk's office off the old Senate chamber in the unfinished Capitol. There John Marshall became Chief Justice. In 1810 the Court was put into the Capitol basement...
...possible for the Governor to walk 100 ft. or so with braces and canes. When standing at crowded public functions, he still clings precautiously to a friend's arm. Constitutionally he is as sound as a nut and always has been. His affliction makes people come to him to transact business, saves him useless motion, enables him to get prodigious amounts of work done at a sitting. Governor Roosevelt is confident of ultimate total recovery...