Word: delano
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Possibly TIME forgot that its Nov. 14, 1932 issue carried the following: ''When Rev. Dr. Enclicott Peabody, headmaster of Groton, discovered that his 184 socialite schoolboys were voting 4-to-1 against Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a 'Grottie' of 1900. he halted their straw poll, ordered politics adjourned...
...enough along to raise the question of its mural decorations. With a warm controversy brewing over the type of art to be used, the only person, in the capital who seemed to have no fixed opinions on the matter was Postmaster General Farley. Conservative Architects William Adams Delano and Chester Holmes Aldrich who designed the building favored a classical allegory. But Edward Bruce, tireless head of the Public Works Art Project and himself a painter of some note, wanted realism. Stormed he: "I don't want any pictures of ladies in cheesecloth clutching letters and postcards to go into...
...Franklin Delano Roosevelt, "Chief Croupier" of the New Deal, is "essentially the product of four very important factors: a good family, a good digestion, a good education and a bad illness." The revolution in U. S. political psychology that rode him into power in 1932 had been coming a long time. "Theodore Roosevelt, who knew little or nothing of economics, sensed it; Woodrow Wilson, who knew little or nothing of finance, strove to anticipate it; the World War attempted to postpone it; Harding and Coolidge tried to destroy it, and Hoover to ignore it. ... Roosevelt is simply a symptom...
Arrested in South Windsor. Conn, for speeding while driving the car of his cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., Robert B. Delano jumped his $20 bail. In Worcester. Mass. Cornelius Van S. Roosevelt, grandson of Theodore Roosevelt, was arrested for speeding, paid a $5 fine...
...honor the President's mother, Manhattan Alderman Michael Pelligrino submitted a resolution to name a thorough fare in his district "Anna D. Roosevelt Parkway." Informed that the name of the President's mother was Sara Delano Roosevelt he amended the resolution. Aldermanic President Deutsch countered with a resolution to name the thorough fare for onetime Park Commissioner Charles B. Stover. Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt telegraphed declining the honor, telegraphed again endorsing the name of Parkman Stover. The Aldermen passed the Pelligrino resolution, named the thoroughfare "Sara Delano Roosevelt Park...