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...marry the President's son to Ruth Googins; therefore the service had to be performed by a retired Congregationalist minister (TIME, July 31). The second White House divorce and possible remarriage outside the church is scheduled for late this month when Mrs. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Dall completes her six-week residence in Nevada (TIME, June...
Marguerite A. ("Missy") Le Hand, youngish, grey-haired private secretary to Franklin D. Roosevelt for the past 14 years, celebrated the beginning of her first extended vacation in four years by slipping into a bright plaid dress and boarding the S. S. Manhattan for Europe. With her on the six-week trip went Grace Tully, stenographer to the President. Said Private Secretary Le Hand : "There are lots of things I never know about until I see them in the newspapers...
...Lawyer Samuel Platt who served Elliott Roosevelt a year ago, drove away in motor cars at 60 m.p.h. to escape trailing newshawks. In half an hour she arrived at Lake Tahoe and entered the seven-room cottage, on the Nevada shore, which she had rented for her six-week residence in Nevada. Said Attorney Platt: "I will not say whether she will charge desertion or cruelty...
...what might have been a fad into a permanent national drink. It helped keep inferior grades off the market by demonstrating, even before 1929, that tomato juice must come only from the best tomatoes, could not be considered a mere byproduct. Today tomato juice canning is a highly specialized six-week business, running from August to October. Tomatoes are brought to the factory the day they are picked on the farm, usually no more than 75 miles away. The juice is forced under mechanical pressure through a fine screen to form a smooth liquid. The brew is poured into vats...
Whether or not the American people get jitters from the word "strike," the Automobile Labor Board had good cause to worry over the word. The Board, headed by Dr. Leo Wolman, went to Racine, Wis. to settle a six-week strike of 4,600 men in the Nash Motors and Seaman Body plants. It arranged an agreement on the basis of a 10% wage increase. All seemed settled when, at the last minute, strikers voted down the agreement. Meantime the Board had shuttled back to Detroit where trouble had brewed during its absence. A strike for a general wage increase...