Word: whites
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cordell Hull, Mrs. Henry Wallace & Miss Frances Perkins played hostess at the White House for the D. A. R., from which Mrs. Roosevelt resigned because of its refusal to let Negro Contralto Marian Anderson sing in Constitution Hall. Mrs. Roosevelt was en route by air from Seattle to Boston, to attend the funeral of her brother Gracie Hall's son Daniel, killed flying in Mexico...
...back to Washington next day, via the Shenandoah Endless Caverns, one of those things occurred which turn Secret Servicemen grey. A car shot out of an intersection on the Lee Highway, directly across the path of the President's car. Only swift action by White House Chauffeur Monty Schneider averted a nasty collision...
Reporters will travel on a pilot train running ahead of the royal special nonstop from the border to Washington. President & Mrs. Roosevelt will meet Their Majesties at 11 a. m. at Union Station, where the State reception suite* is being redecorated with $16,000 of PWA money. At the White House, the diplomatic corps will be received before Their Majesties lunch privately with the Roosevelts. After lunch will follow Sir Ronald & Lady Lindsay's garden party at the British Embassy; that night, a state dinner and reception at the White House, where Their Majesties will sleep...
...After listening to conversation between Colonel Lindbergh & President Roosevelt at the White House, Rhode Island's Senator Green told friends that he would "advise any one against planning a trip to Europe this summer...
...until Roosevelt I entered the White House did Author Mahan come into the honors due a major prophet at home. In the Mahan works, Theodore Roosevelt found the perfect articulation of his Big Stick. Five years before the Spanish-American War, Alfred Mahan had preached that the U. S. should annex Hawaii and then defend it with a Big Navy. He declared that the Navy should not only follow but carry the U. S. dollar into world markets, that the U. S. like imperial Britain should take and govern backward peoples for their own good. A Big Navy he called...