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...under a steady drizzle of notifications by the states that they had ratified the liquor and child labor amendments. Followed a downpour of reports concerning almost everything from the progress of the Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine to the results of a survey of the cotton velvet and velveteen industry. These were succeeded by a torrent of communications from such organizations as the Rotary Club of Indianola, Iowa (for increased monetization of silver and extension of agricultural markets by use of War Debts), the Alaska Native Brotherhood (protesting relief discrimination), the Bakers' Association of Puerto Rico...
...CASE OF THE VELVET CLAWS- Erle Stanley Gardner-Morrow...
...heels of this dinner the President and Mrs. Roosevelt held their first state reception for the diplomatic corps. The President and First Lady (in cream brocade) greeted the Cabinet headed by Secretary of War and Mrs. Dern (pale grey satin)-Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins (black velvet) arrived late-and passed into the Blue Room to "receive." Instead of assembling on the stairs and marching counterclockwise (according to precedent) through the first floor, the guests started from the East Room, marched clockwise to the Blue Room. Head of the procession was Dean of the Diplomatic Corps Ahmet Muhtar, Turkish Ambassador...
Next precedent broken occurred when, after receiving the Congressional delegation including Speaker and Mrs. Rainey (blue satin), Representative and Mrs. Sol Bloom (violet blue crushed velvet) et al., the President retired upstairs. Mrs. Roosevelt, unlike other First Ladies, remained behind to watch the dancing. Instead of giving the guests ice water for refreshments, the Roosevelts had fruit punch and cake served in the State Dining Room...
Newspaper accounts confirm Princess Alice's impression that it was she, not her mother, who christened the Meteor. In dark blue velvet, large picture hat, sable boa and muff, with a black ribbon inscribed "Yacht Meteor" in gold on her left sleeve, she firmly seized a bottle of White Seal champagne (in silver net to catch glass splinters), swatted it cleanly against the ship's side and with a little silver hatchet chopped, in one chop, the heading cord. Prince Henry cabled to his imperial brother: "The yacht christened by the hand of Miss Roosevelt just launched...