Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Possibly, Bullitt's address was a direct hint that President Roosevelt plans intervention in foreign conflicts. More likely, however, it is, at best, merely an indication that the United States and the Roosevelt administration approve, but will not necessarily act in the France-British campaign was a formal statement that American sympathizes for an end to the armament race. That the address are with European democracies in general cannot well be doubted in view of the wording of the speech. Stating that the people of America are "not indifferent to" the plight of those nations who are striving to maintain...
Save in 1933, for the first exciting weeks of his term, Franklin Roosevelt has always succeeded in taking his problems in a very easy stride. Through his re-election campaign last year he had almost the air of coasting with his hands off the handlebars. But last week he gave clear signs of rolling up his sleeves and going to work like a man who knows he has a real job ahead. That job was to put through his plan for putting New Dealers on the Supreme Court...
Boss Tom Pendergast, having been ill for more than five months, announced that he was turning over control of his organization to his nephew James who had done so well during the campaign as boss pro tern (TIME, Dec. 14). A banquet was given for Fred Bellemere, chairman of Kansas City's election board and he was mentioned as a sure-fire future prospect for Governor. Then suddenly in mid-December Judge Reeves impaneled a grand jury of 20 men. Instead of saying, "Everybody is doing it, let it pass," he said to them...
Also a lawyer of distinction, Mr. Ransom brings to the Conference wide knowledge of public utility law and of the course of legal progress and education. Graduated from Cornell Law School in 1905, he was identified with the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential campaign in 1912, and then took up various duties with the New York Public Service Commission...
Died. William W. ("Wild Bill") Durbin, 71, prestidigitating Register of the U. S. Treasury, first chairman of William Jennings Bryan's campaign for the Presidency in 1896; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Kenton, Ohio. He founded the International Brotherhood of Magicians, built an elaborate "Egyptian theatre" at Kenton in which to entertain his friends...