Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Editorialists spoke of the "Roosevelt Revolution," and one Dr. Wirt of Gary, Ind. had a brief vogue when he discovered that Roosevelt was really a Kerensky in Brooks Brothers clothing. But it only looked like a revolution. Actually New Deal roots were deep in Populism, and in the Wisconsin of the La Follettes ; its very name was a blend of Woodrow Wilson's "New Freedom" and Teddy Roosevelt's "Square Deal." As Franklin Roosevelt once said: "If it was a revolution, it was a peaceful...
...Smuts ("We two Dutchmen got along splendidly," he had said of his first meeting with Franklin Roosevelt, at the Cairo Conference in November 1943) paid a simple, heartfelt tribute: "His passing leaves us very poor indeed. .. . ." People's Man. Not Lincoln as a legend, nor Wilson, beyond his brief hour of triumph, had been known so well to the plain people of the earth. They felt they had lost a friend, the American who to them was all that they wanted America to be, and they feared the times to come without...
...bird-cage home of plaited bamboo and braided palm-fronds on the weatherside beach of a coral lagoon, I commence reading-and on I read from the red hour of sunrise to hot, windless midday, through a breeze-freshened afternoon to a rose and lilac sunset, into the brief purple twilight and, lamp flame at full height, right up to when the Southern Cross is directly overhead at midnight. Day after day, night after night-the schedule never varies...
Dean Sperry of the Divinity School is in New York and is expected back today, when Smith will confer with him in regard to holding a brief memorial service tomorrow or Sunday. As is customary, there will be no formal service until the day of the funeral...
...charter was the distillation of some two years of quiet talks between the three. It was brief. It contained some obvious points: that increased prosperity can come only through technological advancement, improved productive efficiency, broader social security and an expanding foreign trade. It also provided that an "enduring peace must be secured" by the "establishment of an international security organization . . . [of the] United Nations capable of preventing aggression...