Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harry Hopkins confirmed, but determined to see WPA's next appropriations chopped far down in the interest of economy, and to see Relief removed from politics. In this determination he was joined by Senators Byrnes and Adams, in charge of Relief appropriation bills, and by Representative Woodrum of Virginia, chairman of the House subcommittee on Relief...
...were each instructed to squire a girl who had never attended a White House dance-the guests were mostly youngsters. White wine punch was the official refreshment.* The orchestra was from New York, conducted by Irving ("Yes, We Have No Bananas") Conn. They danced the Eleanor Glide and Virginia Reel as well as the Lambeth Walk. An exciting moment came when Mrs. Roosevelt, leading a reel with her brother, tripped on her train and tumbled over backwards...
...Dorothy Dunbar Bromley, onetime writer of women's chatter for the New York World-Telegram and now a columnist for the New York Post, Lady Astor proceeded to whip out a flat denunciation of Adolf Hitler. "I'm so much against him [Hitler]," cried the spectacular Virginia lady who 'has sat in the House of Commons since 1919, "that I wouldn't think of accepting an invitation to meet him if one were offered me. I loathe dictators and all they stand for. The most horrible thing Hitler has done is to warp the lives...
Gifts from many sources included rare plants from tropical Africa, China, Alaska, Cuba, Italy, Philippine Islands, Crete, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and various parts of Canada and continental United States. Field expeditions gathered specimens in Louisiana, North Carolina, Kentucky, Virginia and Dominica, and thousands of other specimens were acquired by purchase or exchange throughout the world...
...Unverschamet, schamlos, albern (Impudent, shameless, and silly) West Virginia students sever diplomatic relations with Germany. Prosit...