Word: val
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Roosevelt was scarcely well out to sea aboard the Houston before Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, Marion Dickerman (Todhunter School) and Nancy Cook (Val-Kill furniture) rolled out of Washington on the four wheels of the First Lady's tan Buick coupe. On an "off the record'' vacation they were setting out to add more thousands to 35,000 miles the President's wife has travelled since March 4, 1933. First they scuttled westward into the mountains of West Virginia to inspect the work being done by the American Friends' Service Committee of Philadelphia among half starved children of mine...
...RUSE OF THE VANISHED WOMEN- Val Gielgud-Crime Club ($2). Two branches of the Secret Service, Scotland Yard, and the well-meaning amateur skip about England and France, seeking a kidnapped girl-with many hidden intentions...
...what interested her most was furniture-making, her own hobby at her Val-Kil shop near her Hyde Park home...
...children he felt should come from imported U. S. cows. The Embassy, if Congress proves willing, will be pure colonial in style, with a good chance that patriots will start a fund to fill it with such sturdy colonial reproductions as Mrs. Roosevelt's craftsmen make at her Val-Kill furniture shop...
...girls. Profits go back into the business, which is operated by her boon companion, Marion Dickerman. With her other inseparable friend. Nancy Cook, a tousle headed. unfeminine. effective woman who often dresses mannishly and smokes cigarets in a holder at the side of her mouth. Mrs. Roosevelt operates Val-Kill shops, an enterprise which manufactures antique reproductions at Hyde Park. This is a non-profit concern. In the past five years Mrs. Roosevelt has picked up some $25,000 from endorsements, radio talks and writing. The Roosevelts maintain a summer place at Campobello. New Brunswick, another country place at Warm...