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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other preparatory details. Protocol finally determined that Chief Justice Hughes (if well enough to attend) would rank British Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay at the President's State dinner, since the King would then represent himself. Mrs. Henrietta Nesbit, the White Housekeeper, noticed that Their Majesties ate a lot of strawberries in Canada, ordered a supply. Fields, the White House butler, decided to use the new F. D. R. china (white Lenox with cobalt & gold bands). He put polishers on the state service whose gold plating was begun under President Harrison, continued under McKinley, finished under Coolidge...
Chief Justice Hughes, 77, was too ill (duodenal ulcer) to attend the Court's final session. For him doctors ordered a protracted rest. Justice McReynolds, disgruntled because the Court did not adjourn last week instead of this, passed up the final meeting (and the King & Queen's visit), departed on schedule for his annual visit to Elkton...
Soberest group of alumni were 150 who were to attend the alumni school at University of Michigan, established a year after Lafayette's. Michigan's alumni were to put in a full week (taking up to five courses of four lectures each), paid $10 tuition. Most popular course: National and International Relations. Also popular: golf instruction by University coaches...
...youngest son in a family of 21 children, shy, shrinking, nearsighted, epileptic Edward Lear was coddled by a sister 21 years older, who never let him attend school. As a young man his painstakingly realistic illustrations of a book on parrots got him a job sketching the private menagerie of the Earl of Derby. His first meals were taken with the Earl's steward, but Lear's charm and humor soon won him a chair in the dining room...
More than three hundred doctors, health officers, and laboratory scientists from all parts of the country will attend a special symposium on "The Public Health Significance of the Virus and Rickettsial Diseases," to be offered by the School of Public Health next week, Monday, June 12 to Saturday, June...