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...like to go to Washington to visit my Grandfather. And see him when he opens the House with prayer. I have rolled Easter eggs on the White House lawn and I am just nine years...
...very tangible, carefully cultivated attitude of cheerfulness, confidence, determination. It is designed to fortify the resort's paralysis patients, put heart into their fight for recovery. When he goes to Warm Springs, Franklin Roosevelt steeps himself in this spirit quite as purposefully as he exercises in its waters. Easter afternoon, when he went to the train which was to take him back to Washington after a ten-day rest, his smile and bearing clearly reflected the spirit of Warm Springs...
...Hull boarded the President's train as soon as it halted in Washington's Union Station, motored with his chief to the White House. There Franklin Roosevelt's first act was to go out to the south portico with his wife, set off their seventh annual Easter Monday egg-roll. To thousands of cheering children, he said: "It is a wonderful day. . . . I wish I could be down there with...
...Washington's sunny Easter afternoon, at the base of the Lincoln Memorial, Negro Contralto Marian Anderson sang America, Ave Maria, My Soul Is Anchored in the Lord for a crowd of 75,000, including Harold LeClair Ickes, Henry Morgenthau, many another Capital bigwig. Singer Anderson had waived her $1,750 fee, nobody paid admission, her program was considerably below her artistic par. This was all because, by last week, the Anderson Affair had become more a matter of politics than of Art or even of Race. After the D. A. R. kept Miss Anderson out of Constitution Hall...
With a week of hard practice during the Easter holidays behind them, the Varsity crew is beginning to shape up well. A first boat that was put together before vacation seems to be fairly definite, and no changes are expected before the first race...