Word: delano
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before he started on his two-week tour to the Northwest, Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared that the purpose of the trip was "intake," that he wanted to see for himself how the country was faring under the New Deal and how the country liked it. Last week, back in Hyde Park, it was clear that whatever else he had taken in, Franklin Roosevelt had thoroughly absorbed one thing from the huge crowds that had turned out to see and hear him: assurance that he was as popular as ever in the Northwest...
Only foreign state to approve U. S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Chicago speech so highly as to have it reprinted in pamphlet form and distributed on all fighting fronts to encourage the troops last week was the Valencia Government of Leftist Spain. In Madrid, where newspapers catering to the besieged populace usually carry little foreign news, Mr. Roosevelt was hailed in whole pages of heartfelt Spanish eulogy for having brought Washington out on the side of Valencia. Cried Madrid's Informaciones: "There is not a paragraph in - President Roosevelt's speech which cannot be fully subscribed...
...conference with Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the White House went Walter P. Chrysler accompanied by his local dealer. As he departed, News Photographer Maurice Lanigan snapped his picture, took advantage of the opportunity to complain that his Chrysler car was giving trouble. Automan Chrysler turned to his dealer. Said he: "Fix this...
...Sarah Delano Roosevelt, mother of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, returned to the U. S. from Europe, denied that Grandson John had squirted champagne on the Mayor of Cannes. "Poor John,"she grieved, "they should not have invented that horrid story. He is a very nice boy and was with me most of the time. Grandma doesn't like that...
...only heads of states whose wives last week were writing regularly for the New York daily press were Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Chiang Kaishek. The Chinese Premier & Generalissimo was holding out at Nanking, his frequently bombed capital (see p. 22). and the diary which Mme Chiang began cabling to Manhattan's Herald Tribune last week was in a different class from Mrs. Roosevelt's description of such events as how last week a baby bear reared up on its hind legs and might have scratched the side of the President's car had it not moved...