Word: delano
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...started Monday evening, kept Franklin Delano Roosevelt awake all night. On Tuesday, Commander Arthur H. Yando, official White House dentist, diagnosed its cause as an abscess in a lower right molar and the President stayed in bed. By Wednesday, Franklin Roosevelt had a temperature and it looked as though the molar would have to be extracted. On Thursday, Commander Yando yanked it out. Friday the President was recuperating. After the weekend, his temperature was normal but the President still felt poorly enough to stay in Washington and rest instead of going to Warm Springs, Ga. for Thanksgiving...
Awaiting the start of a special session called before the current slump had been diagnosed as much more than a technical reaction in stocks, Franklin Delano Roosevelt spent the week much as Herbert Hoover spent November's second week eight years ago: holding conferences to find some way to halt the decline, to restore confidence throughout the land...
...Washington this week, the 24th Special Session of Congress in U. S. history convened under circumstances to which Senator Ashurst's remark was peculiarly pertinent. When Franklin Delano Roosevelt last month called the Session to deal with a five-point legislative program, the U. S. was, relatively speaking, economically content. The five weeks since have been just long enough to include the first serious decline in U. S. business since 1933. To the notable opportunities for controversy already foreseen for the special session, the slump added another. This week, when Vice President Garner in the Senate and Speaker William...
...year ago last week. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was re-elected President of the U. S. by the biggest vote in U. S. history. Last week, while local elections popped and fizzled through the land, the President drove to the town hall of Hyde Park to cast his vote on a ballot headed by the candidate for town supervisor. Inquired Miss Alma Van Curan, Democratic chairman of the election board...
...obsolete brick building, with badly ventilated rooms and few sanitary facilities. On the theory that the deplorable conditions at the N.T.S.G. existed partly because no one knew about them, Carrie Smith set out to make them known. Her campaign reached its peak when she got Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt interested in her problems. Mrs. Roosevelt was so appalled that, after describing the school's condition in her column, she mercifully invited all the girls in the School to the White House, gave them tea on the lawn...