Word: delano
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...teammates are likely to exchange congratulations. Conversely, when the pitcher is being batted out of the box in a crucial moment, his own infielders are likely to find fault with him and with each other. That something of the latter sort was going on between Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his circle of close advisers was suggested last week by two well-informed Washington observers...
...effect was comparable to that of having his own party toss a yataghan 15 blocks up Pennsylvania Avenue and put it squarely in between his shoulder blades. Reason: unlike the battle over the Supreme Court plan, the battle over the Reorganization Bill involved no major issue except whether Franklin Delano Roosevelt was still the master of his party. Until the final votes were counted, the President was reasonably sure...
...experts examined the whole question of how independence would affect the islands. Publication of the committee's findings is due next month, but meanwhile, Japanese doings in China have given Filipinos a new reason to wonder what may become of them without U. S. protection. Last January Franklin Delano Roosevelt proposed a plan whereby Philippine trade preferences would be reduced more gradually, ending in 1960 instead of 1946. Last month High Commissioner Paul Vories McNutt broadcast his view that Philippine independence be postponed indefinitely. Since independence has been Philippine President Manuel Luis Quezon's battle...
...Republican Party, like many other U. S. institutions, depends a very great deal on Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The old rule that Depression makes it easier to turn the rascals out has never yet been tested by a regime which has spent money like Franklin Roosevelt's. While deepening Depression should presumably help turn the political tide this year, it might not if the Administration turned on another huge spending program such as last week seemed a fairly likely prospect. Last week, Practical Politician Joe Martin's chief complaint was strikingly familiar: "You just can't tell what...
Decision on this question was up to Franklin Delano Roosevelt under the Monroe Doctrine, and last week the President quickly chose a formula on which the State Department instructed Ambassador Josephus Daniels to take his stand at Mexico City. The formula: Washington is not disposed to consider that the U. S. and British owners of the seized properties are entitled to compensation based upon their valuation. But Washington is disposed to invite payment by the Mexican Government of compensation based upon what the owners originally paid for the properties and their development, less depreciation...