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...their 28th wedding anniversary President & Mrs. Roosevelt dined two dozen, mostly relatives. Sara Delano Roosevelt, the President's mother, went down from Hyde Park for the party. As it was also St. Patrick's Day, the President wore a green silk handkerchief embroidered with "Happy Days," a green carnation in his lapel. He told friends his green tie was worn...
...beef 2¢ per Ib. Such taxpayers were made eligible to borrow the necessary funds from R. F. C. Processors of farm products for export were to get tax refunds. If the public tried to dodge the tax on cotton, for example, by turning to rayon, silk or linen, the Secretary of Agriculture might place a competitive tax on those substitutes...
Awarded. To Robert Thompson Pell, retiring as press attaché of the U. S. Embassy at Paris: the Cross of the French Legion of Honor. To Silk Man Joseph Gerli: the decoration of Grand Officer of the Crown of Italy for boosting Italian art traditions...
Silver and copper moved upward in cash trading with the markets closed. Diamonds, silk and imported rugs all advanced, but dealers preferred to hold their stocks lest they should not be able to replace them except at higher prices...
Uphill. Before the White House portico Mr. Roosevelt kept his seat in the car, waited a few minutes for President Hoover to join him for the ride up Capitol Hill. A lift of silk hats, a quick handshake, a few formal words and their greeting was over. With the country's most precious cargo behind, Richard Jervis, silvery-haired chief of the White House Secret Service, slipped into the front seat of the car, kept its door cracked and one hand on his pocketed pistol...