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...vulture. In one hand the President held a fishing rod with a sucker on the line, in the other a bouquet of microphones. Mrs. Roosevelt stood beside him, her teeth and chin cruelly caricatured. The New Deal was represented by scattered playing cards?all deuces. Elliott Roosevelt and Anna Roosevelt Dall were seen tossing their respective spouses, portrayed as dolls, into a trash basket...
...plays (Mlle Modiste, Chin-Chin, Blossom Time, Sunny, The Last of Mrs. Cheyney). In 1914 he took over Manhattan's big Hippodrome where he installed skating rinks, swimming tanks, staged extravagant spectacles with skating, diving, aerial ballets. Headliners who first appeared on the Hippodrome stage included Annette Kellerman, Anna Pavlova, Gaby Deslys...
When the President finally drove up to the White House with his daughter Anna and Louis McHenry Howe he did not return to the comfortable home which he had left. Before his departure he told the country that he had no fear that builders would erect "a replica of the Kremlin" on the White House grounds merely because he had given them authority to make modest alterations in the White House offices during his absence. When he returned there was nothing left standing save three of those offices' outer walls, and during his first night in the White House...
...keep people from starving is the Federal Relief Administration's chief job, but it likes to give them food for the mind as well as the body. So it pays Hilda Smith, friend of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt and onetime dean of Bryn Mawr, to sponsor a summer School for Workers on Manhattan's East side. There unemployed teachers get jobs and unemployed workers become pupils, get $8 a week. Last week newshawks wandered in, discovered a rack in which supplementary reading was provided for the pupils...
...Chicago "Buzzie" and "Sistie" Ball, grandchildren of President Roosevelt, said good-by for two weeks to their mother, Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Dall. With a nurse and a secret service agent they went down a railroad platform to meet their father, Curtis Bean Dall. With "Popsie" they saw the World's Fair, ate double chocolate ice cream cones, got their hair cut. Said "Sistie": "I don't like braids. They fall in my soup...