Word: weekends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thoroughly rested after a two months trip abroad, president Conant reached his home on Quincy Street Sunday ready to tackle the many problems which demand his attention. Arriving in New York last weekend with Mrs. Conant and his two sons, James and Theodore, the President declined to comment on politics or education and would only say that he had had a "grand trip...
These categorical statements stood uncorrected over the long Labor-Day weekend. When the State Department reopened on Tuesday snowy-crested Secretary Hull called in Washington correspondents to tell them that he still did not know who was behind Promoter Rickett. Few minutes earlier, unknown to Mr. Hull, Vice President Dundas and his chief, Board Chairman George S. Walden of Standard Vacuum Oil, had sent in their cards to Chief Wallace Murray of the State Department's Division of Near Eastern African Affairs. In his shirtsleeves, Diplomat Murray was fingering a pencil and thinking to himself as he looked...
...concession of this magnitude was being negotiated under his nose. Nonetheless, Britain's Foreign Office reacted to the news from Ethiopia with every outward show of consternation. Neither Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare nor League of Nations Minister Anthony Eden could at first be reached, the sacrosanct British weekend having begun, but Foreign Office underlings at once realized that the high, moral case Mr. Eden had been about to present against Italy at Geneva had been smeared and stultified if not destroyed by the taint upon Britain...
...evening, taking Undersecretary of the Interior Charles West, and two of his female secretaries, Franklin Roosevelt motored out into the Maryland countryside for a picnic supper. For the still hotter weekend, he took Senator and Mrs. Wheeler, Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Mrs. Johnson aboard the Sequoia to fish on the lower Rappahannock...
...Motoring to Annapolis with Senator & Mrs. Hiram Johnson, Assistant Secretary of State R. Walton Moore,'his personal Secretary, Marguerite Le Hand, and her two nieces Barbara and Marguerite Farwell, the President put out for a weekend fishing cruise on the Chesapeake Bay, put back again on schedule...