Word: citizens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Mr. Douglas must deal with the "Essentials of Free Government and the Duties of the Citizen" under the terms of the endowment, it is probable that he will discuss the underlying philosophy of the present Administration. Whether he will take up its financial aspects is an open question...
...President Roosevelt might not have done all the things he promised to do and all the things he did do might not be for the country's good in the long run -but what he did do seemed so much better than the deeds of any other single citizen in the land that only the narrowest partisan could cavil at his popular selection...
...Record. In the eyes of oldtime politicians Franklin Roosevelt has be witched the U. S. people with his smile, the toss of his head, the hearty frankness of his manner. These personal attributes apparently counted for more with the average citizen than did the concrete record of the President's achievements during 1934. By last week that record was still an unfinished story, with the outcome of many of his executive undertakings still dangling between success and failure. He had kept busy; he had put on a good show; he had exuded cheer and optimism; but he had decisively...
...millionaire straphanger." Indeed the Press never heard of the financier-philanthropist until he was past 60. And then it spotted him, a shy, parsimonious, white-bearded old gentleman, because he always rode the subway to his Manhattan office until he was 86. A few oldsters remembered that the First Citizen of Yonkers, N. Y. had served four consecutive terms in the House of Representatives a quarter century...
Last week a committee of the Bronx County Medical Society begged New York State for a complete socialization of Medicine. What they wanted was a system whereunder every citizen would get free medical attention and every physician would get a steady State job. The Bronxmen have seen colleagues go hungry and vacate their offices because onetime patients, no longer able to afford private practice, now go to free clinics and hospitals. No one has ever counted how many U. S. doctors work for wages or calculated how much it would cost to hire them all. The Bronxmen figured that...