Word: delano
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. William Forbes Morgan. 57, president of Distilled Spirits Institute (TIME. March 1 ): of heart disease; in the Ohio State Capitol at Columbus, after speaking at a liquor hearing. His first wife was an aunt of Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his second the 26-year-old daughter of Washington Lawyer Robert Jackson, whom he followed as Democratic National Secretary...
...somewhat banal white marble palace of the Pan-American Union in Washington last week gathered diplomats from 21 republics of the Western Hemisphere, to hear a somewhat banal Pan-American Day message from their Good Neighbor, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Beaming "with faith in the high destiny of the Americas," Good Neighbor Roosevelt spoke a smooth public piece in the style to which all Americans are now accustomed. When he had finished he unexpectedly dismissed the press, asked that the microphones before him be deadened, and in a suspenseful silence gave a confidential extempore talk which every delegate present was soon...
...Philadelphia Athletics: their ten-inning game against the Washington Senators on the opening day of the major-league baseball season; 4-to-3; in Washington, where Franklin Delano Roosevelt threw out the first ball, stayed until the game was over...
...Orissa, the Central Provinces and the United Provinces (TIME, March 8). Together these make up three quarters of the population of British India. Taking returns from all provinces into account, the Party of Gandhi won a nation-wide majority as impressive as that won last autumn by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.* This popular mandate went to a party which had gone to the polls with a platform of opposing the new Constitution...
...Communist and Socialist supporters something to tell the proletarians back home, Premier Blum issued a Cabinet decree "nationalizing" the Schneider-Creusot works, biggest French armorers, and commonly called by irate Red & Pink orators such names as "The Blood-Sucking Armament Octopus." There was no reason to suppose that Ramsay Delano MacBlum was not perfectly sincere in issuing this decree, but it does not go into effect on any particular date. Eventual action is made to turn on the advice of the French General Staff, which is about as keen to turn Schneider-Creusot over to political Reds & Pinks...