Word: forli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ambassadors. Because Ambassador Kennedy announced in London that he had been summoned home, and Ambassador Davies in Brussels prepared to return, dopesters prophesied a council of ambassadors, including Biddle of Poland, Bullitt of France. This the President denied, said that Ambassadors Davies and Kennedy were coming home on their own...
Last week came time for the annual first act. But Playwright Roosevelt added a curtain-raiser to Act I, in which he himself appeared in a new role-that of a penny-squeezing pinchfist. Scrimper Roosevelt let it be known he was wearing blue pencils to the stub, slashing $1...
Then Mr. Roosevelt went south to Warm Springs, Ga., for Thanksgiving I. No sooner had he carved the turkey than he gathered the press, told them that he would pass the tax buck to Congress. Those sterling fellows, he intimated, must decide for themselves and the U. S. whether: 1...
With the cynical suspicions yet tireless hopes of veteran drama critics, the U. S. waited for Act II.
Legend had little to say about his tenderness to his narrow circle of friends, his unfailing generosity, his clear legal perception, his unerring eye and ear for the false, the unessential. Least-recognized was his long-time alertness for the preservation of civil liberties.