Word: franklin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week's end a reporter showed Franklin Roosevelt Alf Landon's statement proposing that he renounce a third term in the interests of national unity. The President smilingly declined to comment...
...When, in the phrase, "When and if repeal of the embargo is accomplished," he interpolated: ''And I'd'rather say 'when than if.' " *German submarines can cruise about 3,000 miles, by proclamation of Franklin Roosevelt have the right to be peacefully present in neutral U. S. waters, refuel at U. S. ports, go peacefully home. Germany's famed Deutschland in World War I twice dodged the British and crossed to the U. S. Its U-53 put up at Newport, R. I. just before it sank six foreign merchantmen off Nantucket...
...Franklin Roosevelt last week told Congress that the term "peace bloc" was wide enough to cover both the advocates and opponents of repeal of the embargo on arms to belligerents. His opponents for the most part also indicated that they would not question the motives of their adversaries in the embargo fight. Both attitudes were ingenuous, for the obvious fact was that the emotions of both sides, in Congress and out, were muddled...
Last fortnight, Arthur Vandenberg, U. S. Senator since 1928, on the strength of the tradition he trailed 14 years ago, made a bet with his destiny. The stakes were the highest any U. S. citizen can set - the Presidency, in 1941. For Senator Vandenberg went to battle Franklin Roosevelt over what kind of neutrality the U. S. should have in World...
Thus the wise men came back to the possibility that this fight may make either Arthur Vandenberg or Franklin Roosevelt the Mr. Big of 1940. All the soothsayers realized that the vast unpredictability of World War II might make fine hash of their predictions at any minute. But in shooting guesses from the hip, they aimed at the biggest possibilities as last week's shifting targets slid...