Word: franklin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Nathan Straus's job is sociological. Franklin Roosevelt's immediate reason for expanding it is economic. Giving USHA another $800,000,000 is a big feature of the Great White Rabbit of 1939 whereby business recovery is to be accelerated in time for the 1940 election. In his speech, Mr. Straus stressed that all USHA work goes to private contractors. It is thus at the mercy of whatever restrictive influences may be exerted on Housing by makers and distributors of materials, by building contractors, by building trades unions. It was to clear the road for a big industrial...
Great was the to-do in 1933 when John Pierpont Morgan and his banking partners were discovered to have paid no income taxes for the years 1931 and 1932.* Franklin Roosevelt's legislators were put to work and the next year, restricted in their use of capital losses, Morgan & Co. paid heavily. They paid, but they appealed, and in due time the Bureau of Internal Revenue ruled in their favor. Last week the Treasury announced their refunds, as follows...
Benito Mussolini sent President Franklin Delano Roosevelt a twelve-volume edition of his political speeches (limited to 100 super-elegant copies). Delighted, the President observed: "They even smell good...
Into the office of Franklin D. Roosevelt one day last week filed a hundred-odd Washington correspondents, for the President's usual bi-weekly press conference. As usual, the reporters fell into two groups: 1) those assigned exclusively to cover President Roosevelt's activities, 2) other correspondents and their newspaper friends. Members of the first group drifted toward the front of the room, as usual, and as usual the United Press's tremendous Fred Storm lowered himself into his special chair so that those in the rear could see past him. Franklin Roosevelt gripped a long cigaret...
...President's jaw was set hard and Franklin Roosevelt did not grin at his interviewers. Most of the correspondents looked uncomfortable. The room was quiet as a church. The President broke the silence, made his announcement on neutrality. The questions asked him were terse and sober; his replies were concise. Not a word did Franklin Roosevelt say to Fred Storm, one of his favorite correspondents, about his leaving U. P. to work for Sam Goldwyn and Jimmy Roosevelt in Hollywood. When the conference was over the newspapermen filed out as quietly as they had entered, and everybody knew that...