August 17th, 1937

Transcript

Times Log Location Source

9:15am –

9:52am

Atty. Gen. Homer S. Cummings

White House

USH

10:50am

To Office

White House

USH

10:50am –

11:00am

Sen. Henrik Shipstead

Office

STE, TU

11:00am –

11:15am

Monsignor Dan Frawley

Office

STE, TU

11:15am –

11:30am

Min. Lincoln MacVeagh

Office

STE, TU

11:30am

Sec. Harry H. Woodring

Office

STE, TU

12:00pm –

12:15pm

W. S. Alexander (Alcohol Adm)

Office

STE, TU

12:15pm –

12:30pm

Sidney Hillman

Office

STE, TU

12:30pm

Commr. Eugene O. Sykes

Office

STE, TU

1:00pm –

2:00pm

(lunch) James Roosevelt (Work on Speech)

Office

STE, TU

2:00pm

Harold L. Ickes et al

Office

STE, TU

6:00pm

Press Conf. PC#392

Office

STE, TU, PC

7:15pm

Returned from Office via pool

White House

USH

7:30pm

(dinner) Household, James Roosevelt, and Grace G. Tully, who remained for the night

White House

USH

10:48pm

Left for Station en route to Roanoke Island, VA, accompanied by Marvin H. McIntyre - Virginia Dare Celebration commemorating 350th anniversary of first child of English parentage born in the American continent and also disappearance of Sir Walter Raleigh's

White House

STE, TU, USH

USH = White House Usher's Diary, STE = Stenographer's Diary, PC = Press Conference, TU = Tully's Appointment Diary

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