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F.D.R.'s Cuss Word...
...Glendale, Calif, minister was recently all hot and bothered over an alleged cuss word said to have been uttered, muttered or sputtered by President Roosevelt when voting at Hyde Park. The minister is reported to have written the President suggesting or demanding an apology. The good man is more agitated and aggrieved over the matter than God himself, who could easily have punished F.D.R. by electing the other fellow...
...White House press conference Franklin Roosevelt denied having used the exact cuss word TIME reported, said that his words to the head election official had been, "Tom, the damn thing won't work," advised the White House Correspondents' Association to defray the expense of sending the errant reporter to an ear specialist. TIME will gladly undertake that expense-as well as the cost of examining the ears of the five other reporters and photographers who heard the same thing...
...Hull failures have also been impressive. In success or failure, Mr. Hull usually preserved his native dignity. That dignity was sore beset when Franklin Roosevelt torpedoed the 1933 London Economic Conference from under him. It did not desert him (though it called to its aid some white-hot Tennessee cuss words) when Pearl Harbor caught him politely conferring with two grinning Japanese diplomats. It kept him at least outwardly calm when New Deal left-wingers shrilly accused him of appeasing Petain, Darlan, Franco and Badoglio...
Without firing a shot or uttering one cuss word (in public), the Marine Corps won another notable campaign. Last week the Navy announced that several of its new carriers would be manned by Marine airmen. Their prime mission: support of Marine ground troops in assaults on Pacific beachheads...