Word: blum
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Almost every American in his 40s or older remembers where he was on the April afternoon in 1945 when he heard that Roosevelt had died. John Morton Blum, now a historian at Yale, was then 23 and serving in the Pacific as a Navy lieutenant, executive officer of a patrol craft, PC 616. His small ship had just arrived at Tulagi in the Solomon Islands and had routinely asked for news. Thus came the message that Roosevelt was dead...
...were incredulous," Blum recalls. "I stretched out my arms in the signal for R, meaning repeat. Then the message came again, that Roosevelt was dead. The ship's signalman turned to me and said, 'My God, Mr. Blum, who's President...
...volumes, emphasizes that Congress caused difficulties almost from the beginning. Says he: "Congress, as it is intended to be in the Constitution, was a very important tempering influence, and even in 1935 it required enormous efforts on Roosevelt's part to get what he wanted." Yale's Blum also charges Roosevelt with failure to end the Depression, and he puts the blame not only on "congressional impedance" but on general "economic ignorance." Says he: "Economists at that time really didn't know how to achieve recovery. You needed a Keynesian revolution, and this came only inadvertently with...
Sales are "down a bit," but "firearms are always a big seller," at Blum Jewelry, and this year is no exception. Business is best when "you get the wife coming in and buying her husband a little Christmas present," salesman Theodore J. Hunt said last night...
...Masters) and Lisa (Brooke Adams) are lovers. As free spirits in the modern kingdom of swing, they do not live together. But Lisa would like to be much less free. When she proposes an exchange of apartment keys, the specter of impending matrimonial claustrophobia chills Philip. Michael (Mark Blum), a chance friend, has a reverse problem. His unseen bride of less than a month has deserted him for a fling with her music teacher...