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The Power behind the throne?

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 10 older comments, and then…
  • Suck Diesel said:
    “Roosevelt wore this elegant slate-blue silk crepe evening gown designed by Sally Milgrim for the 1933 inaugural ball in Washington DC. Her gown was embroidered with a leaf-and-flower design in gold thread.

    The gown featured unique detachable long sleeves that were attached by beautiful blue moonstone and rhinestone shoulder clips. The belt buckle and was also made of rhinestone and moonstone.”

    What more can I say?
  • Suck Diesel said:
    FDR himself served four terms, something not since possible, due to the Twenty-second Amendment which now limits office to two terms.

    However, his current successor said on a recent TV interview that that he was looking for ways to contest a third term.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: "No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt

    One of many marvellous quotes by the great lady. Find your own favourite - www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/44566.Eleanor_Roosevelt
  • Carol Maddock said:
    beachcomber australia I love this one! I do hope she really said it...
    The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!
  • beachcomber australia said:
    The 1933 Ball Gown (with sleeves) is preserved in the Smithsonian ...
    americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object/nmah_491245

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; TRAFFIC. STOP AND GO SIGNS (LOC)

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First of fair sex to obtain motorcycle license in Capital. Washington, D.C., Sept. 15. Although she weights only 88 pounds--one-third of the machine she rides, Mrs. Sally Halterman is the first woman to be granted a license to operate a motorcycle in the

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  • Billy Embleton said:
    A pioneering lady on a lovely side valve Harley Davidson.