Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scares, onetime Brazilian Minister of Foreign Affairs, one of the President's South American friends, who had flown up to attend the inauguration but was delayed by storm in Santo Domingo. In quick succession followed other important matters: the President asked Congress to extend the expiring Reciprocal Trade Act; Chairman Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee popped up with a new neutrality bill; hard-headed Walter Runciman, proprietor of the Isle of Eigg and president of the British Board of Trade, arrived with his wife to spend the week-end-quite unofficially-at the White House. These last...
...sentimental occasions. Last week for 200,000 visitors to Washington-not counting several thousand who arrived in the Union Station and never got any farther because of the downpour-the second inauguration of Franklin Roosevelt as President of the U. S. was a sentimental historical ducking in five acts Act I took place in mid-morning at St. John's Episcopal Church across Lafayette Square from the White House. There the Rev. Dr. Endicott Peabody, headmaster of Groton School, held services just as he did four years ago for his onetime student Franklin, for Franklin's mother, wife...
...ring in his voice mounted as he shouted the words, each a separate challenge. "Preserve" "Protect" and "Defend." "SO HELP ME GOD!" he added with sacerdotal solemnity. Act IV was Franklin Roosevelt's second inaugural address, an address which presented no program, no plans but the activating sentiment of the New Deal. The rain beat a tattoo in the microphones and twice the President wiped the water from his face as he unfolded his burden: "In this nation I see tens of millions of its citizens-a substantial part of its whole population-who at this very moment...
...newsorgan Volkischer Beobachter. Almost without exception every German has to read this paper and they knew Hitler must approve or he would have never ordered printed what Mussolini said. It knocked into a cocked hat any false notion that the recent British-Italian "friendship accord" (TIME, Jan. 11) would act as a brake on German efforts to ensure White victory in Spain...
...care. . . . All women drive you screwy except your mother and she drove your old man screwy." Best musical number: dream sequence of Johann Strauss playing his Blue Danube for the Emperor. Worst comedy sequence: members of Bellew's Band wriggling around in a trained seal act in which they shockingly resemble a familiar type of paralytic...