Word: traver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Association donated 500 volumes; in 1933 they gave 200 more. Before it was started Presidents depended on their personal collections kept in the White House study, and on books from the Library of Congress. When the new batch of White House reading matter was presented by President Lewis B. Traver of the Booksellers Association, it was parked first on the second floor, where members of the Roosevelt family could select what they wanted to read, and where Mrs. Roosevelt could pick books to place in guest rooms...