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...crowd, and the U. S., and the listening world, he said, as he has often said, that there must be no doubts about the future of democracy, that tyranny and slavery are not "the wave of the future." A flashbulb popped like a shot. The wind came in stronger gusts. The President: "Democracy is not dying." The nation's body must be tended, the nation's mind informed, but the spirit of America, the American faith must be preserved at all costs. To protect and preserve "the sacred fire" of that spirit everywhere in the world, he called...
Though Mr. Farley grinned a flashbulb grin as he left the White House, he left behind a chilly Administration silence. Something had changed in the relationship of Handyman Farley and Boss Roosevelt. Thereafter Jim Farley's visits to the White House were infrequent. Last July he went to Hyde Park for a long afternoon's chat with his boss. No one knew exactly what was said, but again something had changed...
...minutes later but 90 minutes later he walked out-first envoy of a major power thus informally to be received, first thus to stay and chat with Franklin Roosevelt on his first diplomatic call. As he opened the front door to face the batteries of newsreel and flashbulb cameramen, a scrawny, tired black cat strolled casually across his path. He stooped and picked it up, while the newsreelmen went into a delighted frenzy.* The cat, counterpart of the one in London, named "Appeasement," which haunts No. 10 Downing St., was instantly dubbed "Crisis...
Last week at some wrestling matches in Philadelphia. Arena, a slight, dark Public Ledger photographer named Donald Corvelli spotted Franklin Roosevelt Jr. & party in the tenth row. During some excitement caused by one cf the wrestlers being hurled from the ring, Cameraman Corvelli popped his flashbulb, aimed his lens at Junior Roosevelt. The latter saw him, ducked forward, but too late. Grinning, Cameraman Corvelli trotted toward an exit. In a flash Roosevelt Jr., boiling mad, was out of his seat and at the cameraman's heels. He over-took him in the lobby, spilled him to the floor, jumped...