Christmas at the White House Through Presidents Past
A Nixon era look at White House Christmas rituals from lighting the National Christmas tree to open night tours and children’s parties. The piece recalls historic moments from Tad Lincoln to Calvin Coolidge and the evolution of the national tree pageant of peace.
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James Cary Copley
News Service
Washington
the White House
White House
Legion
Tad Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Executive Mansion
Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
FDR
Vermont
Art Institute of Chicago seeing record 1969 70 attendance
The Art Institute of Chicago reports 1969 70 attendance of 2,392,431, the second highest in its history, up 292,850 from the previous year. Director Charles C. Cunningham notes $596,655 raised for the Annual Contributors Fund, a 22 percent rise from last year, from nearly 5,500 gifts about 800 more than in the prior year. He adds that overall support remains below ideal but up 46 percent over the year before with $104,837.
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Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
Charles C. Cunningham
Institute
Cunningham
TwoYearOld Faces Giant Rag Doll For Christmas
Sandra Mannon of Lancaster Pennsylvania struggles to lift a huge rag doll chosen as a Christmas gift in a toy shop. She will also have trouble stuffing the doll into her stocking, captured in AP wirephoto.
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Andrew Jackson
White House
Sandra Mannon
Lancaster
Scouts Aid World Friendship Fund through Holiday Programs
Boy Scouts in the Shenandoah Area Council participate in World Friendship Fund activities during Thanksgiving and Christmas programs and on World Brotherhood Day February 22. Funds support hand books gear uniforms and materials for undeveloped countries while training aids rebuild Scouting abroad and spotlight foreign traditions through World Friendship Nights.
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World Brotherhood
Boy Scouts of America
World Friendship Fund
Worldwide Scout Brotherhood
Lord Baden-Powell
Scouting
Paul F. Willis
Shenandoah Area
Mr. Willis
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Nixon
Herbert Hoover
Santa Claus
Santa
Teddy Roosevelt
John Adams
Abigail
Congress
Dolly Madison
Rotary
Benjamin Harrison
Harrison
Calvin Coolidge
DODGE
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Dodge Boys
S. Braddock St
Winchester
Riverside
Montgomery Wyard
Scouts Aid
Willis
F.E.T
ONT
Hi-Way
Official State Inspection
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