Word: delano
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this ambitious program been launched last week by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, it might well have caused an international sensation. It was, however, merely another evidence of the social-mindedness of his articulate wife whose latest book* was published to coincide with the New Year...
Concerned with smaller subjects in this troubled world, Franklin Delano Roosevelt last week had nothing on his mind except preparing 1) a message to Congress on the State of the Union, 2) another on the Budget and 3) a speech for his Party's Jackson Day dinner this week. While his children and grandchildren kept the White House gay during the days between Christmas and New Year's, the President put in a busy week in his study. When Congress convened this week he drove to the Capitol. There, to a packed chamber of Senators and Representatives...
With this ingratiating preamble, Franklin Delano Roosevelt this week began to discharge his constitutional duty of addressing Congress on the State of the Union. Surrounded by microphones, against a background formed by Vice President Garner and House Speaker William Bankhead (see cut), the President proceeded to cover assorted aspects of the Union's condition without concentrating on any one. His address lacked the fire of his historic denunciation of "entrenched greed" in 1936, the amiability of his complacent curtain-raiser to the Supreme Court fight a year ago. Its 4,000 words had, instead, a special quality of earnest...
Among the first and most feverishly idealistic projects undertaken by the League of Nations was to send a three-man commission to Persia (now Iran) to investigate the opium traffic. This task was entrusted to Frederic A. Delano, onetime president of the Wabash R. R., one of whose nephews is now President of the U. S. He ran into a rather remarkable situation and, rather remarkably, was able to do something very practical about...
...could be carried down to the sea and the world's markets. The poppy's drowsy seed, very valuable and very light, was the logical, evolutionary Persian product. A camel could carry thousands of dollars' worth very satisfactorily on its back. Just as logically, "Uncle Fred" Delano's commission returned to Geneva and recommended that one good way to prevent the world's being flooded by Persian opium was to build the Persians a railway so they could ship something else. Last week, eleven years after the League commission's visit, 490 miles...