Word: vietta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miles away, at Independence, Mayor Roger T. Sermon was waiting for them at the summer White House, 219 North Delaware Avenue. The night's poker game was all set up. Cook Vietta Garr had the corn in the kettle and the steaks on the fire...
...Independence, Bess Truman, like millions of other U.S. women, faced a servant problem. Vietta Garr, Negro cook who had worked 16 years for the Trumans, is now back of the counter in a Kansas City drugstore. Surveying her array of mechanical aids to soda-jerking, Vietta confessed that she is dubious about returning to what will be the summer White House: "I'm sort of on the outs with the cooking. I'm fountain manager now, and you don't give up that kind of a job without thinking it over. I think an awful...
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