Word: delano
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the more arresting phenomena of current U. S. political life has long been the relation between the country's most important man-Franklin Delano Roosevelt-and its most important activity- Business. Business has been apt to regard Franklin Roosevelt as a malicious ogre who has its fate in his perverse hands. Franklin Roosevelt has appeared to regard Business as a malevolent force, somewhat parallel to original sin, which cannot be wiped out but should be perpetually chastened. In this strange misapprehension, the gravest flaw is obvious: it does not approximate reality. Last week, in the light of glaring...
With a bankers' convention in town to whet the edge of its skepticism toward the New Deal, tart old Boston reveled last week in the ribbing 59-year-old George M. Cohan gave 55-year-old Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Actor Cohan, prime Down East favorite, was appearing in the tryout run of the George S. Kaufman-Moss Hart satire, I'd Rather Be Right, due on Broadway next month. Mummer Cohan wore a pince-nez, assumed a Groton inflection in opening his fireside chats. Musing on budget-balancing and third terms, he sang a song called...
Hastily Editor Daigh selected Free-lancer Frederic Mortimer Delano (fourth cousin to the President), 40, to help shape up Photo-Facts. A metropolitan "feeler number" in August was so successful Publisher Fawcett put on newsstands this week 175,000 copies of the first regular Photo-Facts issue, a modest figure in contrast to Fawcett's bestseller, True Confessions, which has reached 1,100,000 a month...
Nervous and physical strain of a 200,000 circulation first edition over, Photo-Facts Editor Delano found himself in a hospital last week. There he can read in Editor Lurton's Your Life: "The high-strung worrier can actually fret himself into serious organic diseases such as stomach ulcers...
...gourmets, was the New York Times's Editor John H. Finley. To the tune of the Wedding March, softly played by violins, Mr. & Mrs. Tschirky cut a 200-lb. wedding cake. They received felicitations from onetime President Herbert Clark Hoover, the present Cabinet, bigwigs in general. Franklin Delano Roosevelt sent "warm greetings and congratulations to my good friend Oscar and his good wife...