March 5th, 1939

Transcript

Times Log Location Source

1:27am

Retired

White House

USH

11:20am –

12:40pm

Frank C. Walker

White House

USH

1:15pm –

3:19pm

(luncheon) Household, Comm. Sec. Harry L. Hopkins, Victor Sholis, Adrian Dombush, Benjamin V. Cohen, Treasury Sec. and Mrs. Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Col. Harrington, Comdr. Flanigan, Mr. and Mrs. N. Littell, Mrs. Henry Luce, Mrs. Julia Peterkin, Miss Eleanor McAdoo

White House

USH

2:30pm –

3:45pm

British Amb. Lindsay

White House

STE, USH

4:35pm –

5:00pm

Col. Edwin M. Watson

White House

USH

7:30pm –

9:55pm

(supper) ER, Household, Copley Amory and Mrs. Copley Amory, Mrs. Cary T. Grayson

White House

USH

8:30pm –

10:30pm

Movie "The Crisis" - Herbert Kline and Mrs. Herbert Kline

White House

USH

11:23pm

Retired

White House

USH

ER

In Washington, DC. Left for lecture tour at 2340

USH

Houseguest

Mrs. Frank C. Walker (dep. 9:45), Frank C. Walker (dep. 12:40), Dr. and Mrs. F. Wilson (dep. 3:30), Miss Lorena Hickok (dep. 5:30)

USH

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

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