Word: whitings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, to the President of the U. S. Then he enrolled other superpatriots in his crusade, marched in a cordon of Boy Scouts to protect the emblems. Last week Newark's Postmaster John J. Sinnott gave way, removed the seals and replaced them with white marble stars. Said Postmaster Sinnott aggressively: "And those stars don't mean anything in particular...
...some months ago, Mrs. Roosevelt casually remarked, mentioning no names, that she had tried on a pair of shoes which "make standing for hours a pleasure." After investigating, the radio MARCH OF TIME re-enacted on the air her White House fitting by the shoe's inventor, 54-year-old, Syrian-born Cobbler James Fikany. Last week, in Rochester, N. Y., Cobbler Fikany acknowledged the happy result. Deluged with orders from the U. S., Canada and England, he proudly signed articles for a $250,000 corporation. His backers hoped to expand the little Fikany business into an enterprise...
When questioned about the incident by reporters at Hyde Park, President Roosevelt recalled that superpatriots had once objected to a replica of the gold Presidential seal which was and is still embedded in the floor of the White House entry. On that occasion Roosevelt I decreed that the seal was no flag, could not be desecrated by visitors walking across...
...Honest") Harold LeClair Ickes, after his handsome salute to the Negro vote in Baltimore (TIME, Oct. 17), crossed the continent upon the first major trial-balloon ascension of the White House Janizariat, which seeks data on 1940. Ostensibly out to whoop up the New Deal for the Congressional elections and attend a few ceremonies at which his presence was appropriate, Mr. Ickes went armed with eight full-length addresses to deliver in twelve days (besides informal talks and short speeches...
...Prime Minister Lord Craigavon and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain kept mum. The first bigwig Prime Minister Eamon de Valera heard from-two days after making his demands-was President Roosevelt. Mr. John Cudahy, the U. S. Minister to Eire, merely dropped around in Dublin to present an official White House invitation to Prime Minister de Valera to visit the U. S. next spring. Since King George and Queen Elizabeth have not yet made clear whether they will extend their visit to Canada next spring to include the U. S., the White House invitation at Dublin created a stir among...