Word: delano
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back in Washington after 18 days at Hyde Park and on Long Island Sound. Franklin Delano Roosevelt last week found himself somewhat in the position of most U. S. citizens at the end of summer vacations: swamped with work. Items that demanded his immediate attention were the uproar about Associate Supreme Court Justice Hugo La Fayette Black (see p. 10); two speeches on the same day; and the war in China. Pitching into this impressive lineup, the President started with...
...stage set at the base of the floodlighted Washington Monument, Franklin Delano Roosevelt last week addressed 65,000 listeners massed on the slick green lawns of Washington's Sylvan Theatre. Occasion of the speech was the 150th Anniversary of the signing of the U. S. Constitution by 38 delegates in Philadelphia. Having made the Constitution the most controversial U. S. political subject of the year, the President took the opportunity to define his views on it, emphasize the familiar theme that in the past four years the Supreme Court has obstructed the will of the U. S. electorate...
When Franklin Delano Roosevelt has an important piece of news to give out, he likes to have as many Washington correspondents as possible at press conference. Last week, the biggest press conference since the President announced his plan for enlarging the Supreme Court was on hand when he started out by saying that he knew exactly what the newspapermen wanted to ask and was prepared to answer for quotation. Without more ado, the President read a prepared statement...
...rate, never before has a campaigning British political leader so heartily abused the White House occupant. According to Premier Hepburn the sum of $500,000 was contributed to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's political fortunes by John L. Lewis. Ontario farmers grin, figuring that "Mitch" is only having his fun when he makes such charges, but the Premier continues roaring at Washington from public platforms: "Is it any wonder that [Lewis] can corrupt governments with a slush fund of that size...
Married. Nicholas Ridgley du Pont, 20, brother of Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.; to Genevieve Livingston Estes, 21, of Jacksonville, Fla.; in Jacksonville...