Word: citizens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. "It is not in despair that I paint you that picture. I paint it for you in hope. . . . We are determined to make every American citizen the subject of his country's interest and concern. . . . The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." Act V was not Franklin Roosevelt's drive home in an open car with a half inch of water on the floor...
...assert that the ordinary U. S. citizen grows excited about politics only once every four years and thinks about Government only when his mail goes astray is a trite slur on the national intelligence. Last week vigilant patriots felt reluctantly impelled to believe that there might be some truth in it. Difficult to explain otherwise was the public indifference which greeted President Roosevelt's proposal of the most momentous change in U. S. Government and politics since Andrew Jackson perfected the spoils system. Possibly, however, citizens were simply baffled because the President had packaged his dynamite-a proposal...
...Jesse Jones, self-made First Citizen of Texas, went to Washington in February 1932 to be a Democratic director of Herbert Hoover's Reconstruction Finance Corp. Under pinchpenny Chairman Atlee Pomerene, RFC dwindled in power and prestige until by March 1933 it had hit bottom. Two months later Jesse Jones took over as chairman and RFC's great days began. He conducted himself and his huge money-lending business so well, with such level-headed liberalism, that it became easily the public's favorite New Deal agency, and he perhaps Washington's favorite administrator. Just...
...judge of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Cincinnati. Mrs. Frances Perkins Wilson is Secretary of Labor. The 19th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution gave women the right to vote in 1920. Still forbidden women in 26 States, however, is another prime privilege of a citizen-the right to serve as jurors...
Died. Robert David Carey, 58, Wyoming's ranching First Citizen, Republican Governor (1919-23) & Senator (1930-37), son of its late pioneer Senator Joseph Maull Carey; of heart disease; in Cheyenne...