Word: woodley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...goes walking before breakfast, is sometimes dictating to his secretary by 7:30, gets in an hour of work before he goes to the office. He leaves the Munitions building usually around 4:30, never later than 5, goes home to Woodley-the $800,000 estate that he bought when he became Secretary of State in 1929. There the program until dinner is a strenuous hour of deck tennis, often followed by bowling, swimming and sometimes riding, at which as an old cavalryman he excels. Said one of the younger guests of this program: "Next morning when I tried...