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Mr. Roosevelt came of a good family; he had wealth; he passed through the best and most expensive education in the country. After twentynine years, he found himself in a position where the richest and most powerful nation in the world was at his feet, begging for leadership, for strength...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARDMAN SPEAKS | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

Such a day as this was not to be taken quietly by the Dictator. The fact that King Vittorio Emanuele's 44,000,000 subjects were giving $80,000,000 to a defiant cause, while the 46,000,000 subjects of King George V in Great Britain and Northern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Fascist Queen: Eden Trap | 12/30/1935 | See Source »

His face, almost wooden, sometimes lights up in a crooked smile. Prone to swearing a good deal in a quiet, pleasant way, he never loses his temper, though he is a martinet about detail. When he is in command, his ship must be spotless, his men equally neat. In only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Transpacific | 12/2/1935 | See Source »

>The Rev. Robert I. Wilson of Kansas City: The Administration's seeming intent to act on the principle that all successful business is crooked, we object to. . . . Your administration has . . . contributed to the decay of self-reliance and self-respect. . . . It has undermined confidence with its failure to keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Clouts from Clergymen | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

(7 of 9) both occasions in sarcastic and, for him, spectacular fashion. Amid a loyal salvo of applause, he began: "This issue of America is not a battle of phrases, but a battle between straight and crooked thinking. ... I shall confine myself on this occasion to one hard practical subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: GOPossibilities | 10/14/1935 | See Source »

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