Word: delano
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...call History many a potent human being scrawled his name the twelvemonth past. But no man, however long his arm, could write his name so big as the name written by the longer arm of mankind. Neither micrometer nor yardstick was necessary to determine that the name of Franklin Delano Roosevelt was written bigger, blacker, bolder than all the rest...
...onetime Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Franklin Delano Roosevelt has kept amazingly mum on that subject since he became President. News queries at Washington on naval policy are commonly referred to grey and graceful little Norman Hezekiah Davis, who served President Hoover as disarmament Ambassador-at-Large, continues so to serve President Roosevelt. In London at the deadlocked Naval Parley (TIME, Dec. 3), it was Ambassador Davis' privilege last week to tell the world just where, in the President's opinion, Japan gets...
...York City had 2,000 cases, 130 deaths. In 1916 occurred the nation's worst epidemic of the disease. New York City had 8,928 cases, of whom 27% died. That year 7,130 children died of infantile paralysis in the U.S. In 1921 Franklin Delano Roosevelt contracted the disease. In 1931 Brooklyn was terrified by an epidemic which laid 4,000 children low. Last summer California suffered an epidemic, with 1,300 children mildly affected (TIME, July...
...expel any boy for cause, may even recommend the dismissal of a master. Popular in the Midwest, Lawrenceville sends most of its graduates to nearby Princeton. Some Lawrence-villians: onetime U. S. Attorney-General William D. Mitchell, onetime Ambassador to Japan Roland S. Morris, Architect William A. Delano, Art Critic Homer Saint-Gaudens, Author Richard Halliburton, and the sons of Charles Gates Dawes, Mark Sullivan, Arthur Brisbane, William Randolph Hearst...
...initiation of the Hasty Pudding Club two Boston newscameramen set up their tripods in the Harvard Yard, snapped Sophomore Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. wearing brassiere and panties over the costume of a Pudding initiate. On the edge of a crowd of students Freshman John Roosevelt, youngest son of the President, caught sight of the cameras, demanded the plates of his brother. Refused, he leaped on the back of the nearest photographer, wrested the negatives from the camera, exposed them to the light. Meanwhile the other cameraman was slipping quietly away. Long-legged John raced through the Yard after him, made...