Word: franklin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prohibition question was injected into the otherwise tranquil conference by a letter from Chairman George Woodward Wickersham of the National Law Enforcement Commission to Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York in which Mr. Wickersham proposed an enforcement scheme whereby the U. S. would deal with wholesale bootleggery, the States with the retail trade. He hinted at modification to make the law "reasonably enforceable...
...discuss protection of national resources, state executives have been meeting periodically to discuss their executive duties, to eschew all controversial matters, to have a sociable time. This year's Conference, held last week by 22 Governors assembled in New London, Conn., bubbled with unusual excitement when Gov. Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York injected into it a letter on Prohibition which he had obtained from no less a personage than George Woodward Wickersham, chairman of President Hoover's National Commission on Law Enforcement and Observance...
Amid the typical, frantic French cheering which followed. M. Franklin-Bouillion conceded himself routed. "I withdraw!" he shouted, enthusiastic even in repentance, "Cher M. Briand, I withdraw my motion...
Bouillion v. Briand. Stout, excitable Deputy Franklin-Bouillion, who was Minister of Propaganda during the War and now leads the obstreperous Left Unionist Bloc, was last week the first anti-ratifica-tionist to cross a potent sword with M. Briand as the Foreign Minister assumed the Government's defense. With fire and slash M. Franklin-Bouillion sought to destroy by an emotional onslaught the Government's chief logical reason why France must ratify her debt agreement not later than Aug. 1 next. On that date, as M. Poin-caré had incessantly reminded the Chamber, there would fall...
Originated as a patriotic order, the Society of Tammany in Manhattan makes a great to-do over Independence Day. On that day last week the city's Democratic politicians crowded into their hall to hear New York's Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt call for a new "Declaration of Independence" against "Centralized Industrial Control" in the form of corporation mergers...