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Just before dawn Executioner Deibler put on his silk hat and black cotton gloves, and a police official arrived with a priest, a prison barber, a glass of rum and a cigaret. These last Bandit Spada waved indignantly aside...
President Roosevelt rocked back in his swivel chair, lighted a cigaret, jestingly asked the assembled reporters if they had any news for him. When the consequent titter died down, a voice asked if he had reached any conclusions about NRA. He had and for the next hour he proceeded to give them to the Press, not as a straight quotable interview, but as an indirect monolog addressed to the nation at large. Though, by this technical device, the President was relieved of black-&-white accountability for all he said, the 200 newshawks were able to reconstruct from their notes...
...picked up the opinion, began to speak with great emphasis.) The Court ruled that no matter what kind of emergency the country gets into, all laws must be strictly constitutional. It says "extraordinary conditions do not create or enlarge constitutional powers." (He put down the decision, lighted another cigaret.) That's a very broad statement. During the War Congress passed a lot of extraordinary legislation but none of it was argued before the Supreme Court...
...made a rip-snorting speech. To rumors that he was going to wobble on his Bonus veto, he replied with a flat announcement that his veto would be as strong as he could make it. And two days later he electrified his press conference by abruptly grinding out a cigaret and saying he would not send a Bonus veto message. He would go to the Capitol and deliver it in person -the first time any President had ever done such a thing. Cause of the marked change in Franklin Roosevelt nobody knew, but everyone could see that the winter...
...Undisplayed gifts include corsets, hosiery, cocktail shakers, beaded bags, cigaret cases...