Word: following
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pants, blue sweater and floppy white hat, Franklin Roosevelt received them with a day's growth of stubble on his chin, kept the Admiral for lunch. That afternoon he played his favorite game, tacking into shallow water, dodging among rocky islands where his deep-draft escorts could not follow. Vastly relieved were his guardians when the Sewanna hove back in sight after half-an-hour and they heard the President's great laugh ringing across the waters...
...going," announced Massachusetts' onetime Governor Joseph B. Ely after breakfasting with Republican Chair-man John Hamilton in Springfield, "to follow what I have always considered the ideals of the Democratic Party as I see them. It happens that in the coming election those ideals are espoused in national politics by the Republican Party...
Lionel Stander is a shaggy young Jew of Russo-German descent whose sudden rise to cinematic fame in the past year can be traced, like so many others in Hollywood, principally to a misspent youth. Too independent to follow his father's profession of public accountant, he ran away from school at 14, earned his living for five years as cab driver, lifeguard, reporter, tile setter, office boy, bank clerk. Where an orderly schooling might have refined, this helter-skelter existence served to aggravate the amazing accent of an illiterate Hell's Kitchen ragamuffin which...
...Brien has acquired a high-flown reputation among Chicagoans for his mildly liberal musings on the editorial page of William Franklin Knox's Daily News. Last winter Columnist O'Brien made news by declaring that if his boss were elected President, he would of necessity follow the policies of Franklin D. Roosevelt once he got inside the White House (TIME, Dec. 2). Publisher Knox, then a good-natured candidate for the GOP nomination, was supposed to have been highly amused at this piece of intramural impertinence, let O'Brien's copy go through to press unedited...
...Town Hall. There Son Neville was none too subtly reminding Britons that both he and his father had gone from the mayoralty of Birmingham to Empire greatness. Said he: "Joseph Chamberlain upheld municipal work as one of the noblest and most useful avocations that any man or woman can follow. He upheld it as an invaluable school of preparation to those who might desire afterward to enter a larger field and engage in national activities." Wiseacres suspected Son Neville meant by "larger field" the House of Chamberlain's first Prime Ministry...