Word: first
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plane and train from all over the U. S. gathered the Roosevelt clan, some two dozen strong-with newest grandson, eight-month-old John Roosevelt Boettiger, coming East to take his first look at his famous grandfather. Ready as always was Grandmother Eleanor, her activities for the holiday week scheduled to the minute-six public Christmas tree ceremonies, three religious services, three celebrations in New York City, three separate White House children's parties...
...First witness was pipe-smoking Dr. William Leiserson, 56, appointed to the Board eight months ago, with a reputation as a labor mediator. Dr. Leiserson stated the case for NLRB about as well as it has been stated. He denied that the Act needed amendment. He reminded the Committee of the conditions that brought about the Act-the use of labor spies, the discrimination against good union men, the tragedies of violence in labor disputes, the old hostility against labor legislation...
Whose Ox? In the first ten days...
...pink-faced Tom Hughes set the younger sons to laying out cricket fields, tennis courts, organizing a Rugby football team, dramatic societies, a cornet band. In the Tennessee mountains old English homes sprang up, a "Tabard Inn," a church, a library which included a practically complete set of Hughes first editions, a rare Dickens item, pamphlets by the younger Pitt, the entire series of Illustrator Kate Greenaway. Tom Hughes's mother moved there, lived out her life in "Uffington House." But Tom Hughes's wife thought the whole thing was silly. She insisted that he return to England...
Ross Wyatt took the stand, told in detail how Mary Jo had drawn two hearts, arrow-joined, when she applied for a job with him; how he first kissed her, how they became intimate three weeks later, how they took a ten-day trip to Florida at her suggestion, spent weekends in tourist camps and hotels, how she loved...