Word: warmly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before the Trustees of Warm Springs Foundation in the East Room of the White House, Rear Admiral Gary T. Grayson presented the President with a check 3 ft. long by 18 in. wide, for $1,003,030.08 - receipts for the President's "birthday balls" last January. The amount was half a million dollars smaller than Warm Springs had confidently hoped for but the President waved the check triumphantly aloft, before handing it to Trustee Arthur Carpenter. "Just for five or ten seconds, Carp," said the President, "I wouldn't trust you longer with it. No danger was there...
...Insull, a forbidding man in dealing with his public but well liked by his immediate associates, used to go to his mahogany-panelled office in Commonwealth Edison Co. at 7:10 every morning. Being English, he could not stand steam heat and had a log fire to keep him warm. Sometimes in a busy morning he stopped to write long letters in longhand to his favorite correspondent, his sister Emma (now dead) who lived in London. At 12:30 sharp he lunched at the Chicago Club, often with his friend Harry Stuart. Afterwards he sometimes visited his other offices...
...chiefs. His followers have called subsequent local Democratic victories, Pinchot victories. But there was a good chance that Governor Pinchot would be beaten in the Republican primaries this week. If so, he would get scanty backing from the State Democratic machine as an independent candidate in November, despite his warm personal friendship with President Roosevelt...
...romance of "dragging the pageant of a bleading heart across Europe," will out with Shelley and Byron. Here is the simple case of an elderly utilities man and holding company magnet who "hit for the boiler" when things began to get to warm. For all the court intrigues,Greek women, tramp steamers, (but not even an airplane) it is evident that Insull himself is not a romantic person, such as some old Stuart Pretender or Confederate General. It is probable that the sympathy which he is getting in Chicago marks the surfeit of investigations, mud-slinging threats, and big-banker...
...important, except as they create dramatic situations for Katharine. As for Miss Hepburn's complete domination of the picture, that is an open question. The cinema magnates have probably found that the public wants unadulterated . . . Hepburn. Broadway thought differently when it gave Jed Harris's play. "The Lake," no warm reception this winter because it seemed to be too much Hepburn. And our heroine really is a fine actress if she is used correctly...