Word: delano
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fell to a comparatively unimportant Wilsonian, onetime Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Delano Roosevelt, to deliver the eulogy of the Foundation's hero over two nation-wide radio hookups. It was soon clear to most of his listeners that the President had come to state his policies on Latin-American affairs rather than praise his Wartime chief. In the few passages where Wilson was touched upon, however, his former disciple was affectionate if not fervid. While assuring his audience that "we do not contemplate membership," President Roosevelt tried gallantly to put a good face on the scuttled League...
...Year from within his Government. Who? No member of the Cabinet, with the debatable ex- ception of busy Secretary of the Interior Ickes, had stood out head and shoulders above his fellows. No Senator, no Representative had glittered individually at the Capitol. In the White House sat Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He was Man of the Year in 1932, when the New Deal was new. More popular than the day he won the Presidency, he had lived up to the brightest expectations of the electorate. But he needed no fresh laurels, could well afford to pass them along to an associate...
...order the pay of U. S. soldiers in the Pacific area raised by one half; if he should tell the Treasury to pay California fishermen 20% more than they now get for their fish-then U. S. citizens east of the Rockies might well be expected to defeat Franklin Delano Roosevelt for reelection. Josef Stalin comes up for re-election next month as General Secretary of the Communist Party-the post which makes him Dictator. Josef Stalin decreed last week special and extraordinary privileges for all Soviet citizens east of the Ural Mountains-Russia's "Rockies...
...secretary of an advisory committee on Fine Arts. In Washington last week a meeting of that committee was held at Artist Bruce's home. On hand in addition to Messrs. Robert and Bruce were Art Critic Forbes Watson as technical director, President Roosevelt's Uncle Frederic Adrian Delano, Braintruster Rexford Tugwell, CWAdministrator Harry L. Hopkins. The Com mittee was given $3.000.000 to provide work for 2.500 artists decorating public buildings at the flat rate of $35 per week. It was announced that not only strictly Federal buildings would be decorated by CWArtists but also any or all buildings...
...members appointed yesterday to the Union Committee are Harvey McClary Dawson '37 of Washington D. C., and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr. '37 also of Washington...