Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tables showing the trend of the voting. From room to room wandered intimates of the Roosevelt family: his former law partner, Basil O'Connor; his preacher publicist, Stanley High; his Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr.; his frequent campaign companions, Judge & Mrs. Samuel I. Rosenman; his yachting friend, Vincent Astor; his uncle, Frederic A. Delano; his bright young Brain Trust lawyer, Tom Corcoran, with a broad Irish smile, who made the evening so gay with his accordion that Basso Marvin Mclntyre burst into song. Among them circulated Mrs. Roosevelt in a white satin evening gown and Mother Sarah Delano Roosevelt...
...devaluing the U. S. dollar in such fashion as to "cheat" holders of U. S. Government bonds is impossible, but under French law last week the French Taxpayers Federation, which claims a membership of 1,000,000 filed such a suit against both Premier Leon Blum and Finance Minister Vincent Auriol...
...place in which the Secretary's new kind of gold standard was taken seriously was Paris, where Premier Leon Blum and Finance Minister Vincent Auriol, attacked by enemies of their devaluation move, have been trying to convince the skeptical French public that they actually have obtained from Mr. Morgenthau and from British Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain a binding accord to keep the dollar, pound and franc all stabilized at their present level (TIME, Oct. 5). Cried M. Auriol: "Mr. Morgenthau has made the best answer both to the skeptics who called our original accord illusory...
...plain girl, was sufficiently impressed to sit down at her typewriter, compose a long, yearning letter to the magazine. To Mademoiselle's editors Barbara Phillips announced that, though she also read Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and the Atlantic Monthly, and could identify such widely assorted characters as Vincent van Gogh, Beatrice Lillie and Princes Natalie Paley, she still stood in need of advice on "how to do my hair, powder my nose, cultivate sex appeal and walk a straight line...
...courtesan-wife, the hero Nelson, and the nefarious Acton, privy councillor, are skillfully contrasted with the populace of Naples, aristocrats, shopkeepers, servants, and the appalling "Iazzarone", who lived like beasts in filthy holes by the sea, coming out only at night or when there was looting to be done. Vincent Sheean's first novel is excellent. Never, as the jacket-blurb says, actually anti-historical, it is an impressive demonstration of the mingling in just proportion of literal fact and educated imagination...