Word: 65th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Forty-nine East 65th Street, Manhattan, is not a speakeasy. It is the home of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Yet last week an ignorant observer might easily have mistaken its identity as he watched people flock in to see the next President of the U. S. and then flock out again...
...When do we eat? We want action!" screamed a score of Communists one night last week as they shoved past a police cordon into Manhattan's East 65th Street and took up a defiant stand before the brownstone house of President-elect Roosevelt. Being photographed on the steps of the house were five Senators and six Representatives, Democrats all, who had just arrived from Washington for a party conference with their national leader. The Communists shook fists, hooted, yelled. The Congressmen beat a quick retreat inside the Roosevelt home. The police with many a fisticuff and nightstick thwack cleared...
...Washington, William Moran, Chief of the U. S. Secret Service, ordered two of his best men to proceed at once to New York and take up their duty of guarding the person of the 32nd President. Returning from the Biltmore to his town house at No. 49 E. 65th St., Franklin Delano Roosevelt ate some ham & eggs and went to bed. "I have work to do on the State Budget," was his parting word to the ever-present Press. "That will keep me busy for the next few days. I'm not President yet." The election of this Roosevelt...
...Howe is to Franklin Roosevelt. A newshawk for the old New York Herald, he attached himself in 1911 to Mr. Roosevelt who took him along to the Navy Department. They have been together ever since, call each other "Franklin" and "Louis," share the Governor's town house on East 65th Street. Lacking personal ambition, Secretary Howe keeps himself far in the background, vigorously denies that he is the "power-behind-the-Roosevelt-throne." "I just get things done for him," he insists?answer-ing letters, reading speeches, seeing people. But smart politicians know that Louis Howe...
During his three years at Albany, Governor Roosevelt divided his time between the oldfashioned, musty executive mansion, his estate at Hyde Park, his town house on East 65th Street in Manhattan and Warm Springs. He has traveled much about the state, visiting every county, making countless speeches. He has cruised its waterways on extensive inspection trips. Never have his crippled legs deterred him from going where he would...