Word: franklin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...RIESENMAN III Franklin...
...telephone in Franklin Roosevelt's bedroom at the White House rang at 2:50 a. m. on the first day of September. In more ways than one it was a ghastly hour, but the operators knew they must ring. Ambassador Bill Bullitt was calling from Paris. He had just been called by Ambassador Tony Biddle in Warsaw. Mr. Bullitt told Mr. Roosevelt that World War II had begun. Adolf Hitler's bombing planes were dropping death all over Poland...
...Hollywood (which he hated), most of it around the New York theatre. This fall he was to have put on his first play under the banner of Manhattan's new, highly successful Playwrights company, was working on an adaptation of Van Doren's biography of Benjamin Franklin the morning he was killed. That morning also, Father-in-law Damrosch got word that Martin Wolfe, another daughter's divorced husband, had died from a fall July 30 while mountain climbing in Tibet...
...Franklin...
...Long Island, American Bullfighter Sidney Franklin, decked out in cerise cape and a sheathed wooden sword, got ready to put on a bull-dodging act for a New York World's Fair rodeo. On hand were representatives of the S. P. C. A., 200 spectators, a bull in a corral. When somebody opened the gate to the corral, nothing happened. To attract the bull's attention cowboys did a dance in front of the gate. The bull didn't budge. Steers were driven into the chute as decoys. The bull looked the other way. Twenty minutes later...