Word: franked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Limited Emergency." Franklin Roosevelt meantime made much hay of the Neutrality which he had. He busily divided its enforcement between Treasury, Army & Navy and other departments (see p. 22). Attorney General Frank Murphy for the newsreels spoke tensely of spies and of every patriot's duty. Federal legalites searched the Constitution and the statutes for special powers...
...broader because many are implied rather than specific. Some stem from the U. S. Constitution, some from statutes dating back to the 18th Century, many from laws passed for Woodrow Wilson before and during World War I and never repealed, others from New Deal laws. Last week Attorney General Frank Murphy and his Department of Justice attorneys were under the strictest White House orders not to talk publicly about the extent of these powers...
...President invoked them. Correspondents at a regular press conference saw him in vigorous mood, as ebullient and confident as in the crisis days of 1933. Behind him sat pale, libertarian Frank Murphy. Mr. Roosevelt announced that what he was about to say would justify no scarelines, nothing but calm. He said this again, and again. "For the proper observance, safeguarding and enforcing of the neutrality of the United States," he then proclaimed a national emergency. (Orally he called it a "limited emergency" by way of minimizing it.) By that stroke he assumed many powers which would be his in actual...
...Rhodes scholars prepared to board ship for England and Oxford, Swarthmore's President Frank Aydelotte, U. S. secretary for the scholarships, suddenly notified them to cancel their reservations, announced that the Rhodes trustees had suspended the scholarships for the war's duration. The 64 Rhodesmen al ready at Oxford on the 1937 and 1938 scholarships were sent home. Dr. Ayde lotte said he would try to get his Rhodes-men scholarships or teaching jobs in the U. S., that at war's end their Rhodes scholarships would still be good...
...undergraduates gaped and to give an occasional steer to hopeful dedicates. To the University of Georgia went Native Son Lamar Dodd. Dartmouth called home its own Paul Sample. Muralist Thomas Benton spurned all Missouri compromises during four stormy years teaching and painting at Kansas City's Art Institute. Frank Mechau Jr. was called this autumn to Columbia University...