Word: franklin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mind this just showed how right he was in seeking to rid his party of such obstructionists. And a Senator who voted with George was Iowa's Guy Gillette, another purge-marked man. Mr. Gillette denied that his motive now was revenge for 1938, but that made Franklin Roosevelt feel no better about his worst defeat of all this session. He conferred with Cordell Hull about what they should do next...
Anger that he had not publicly vented on the Senate now poured out of Franklin Roosevelt upon the United Press. In a special statement that marked a new high in bad blood between him and the working press, he called the U. P.'s story false. The U. P. stuck to its guns and, when Mr. Roosevelt's next Neutrality move did come, had the satisfaction of noting that it was a moderate statement by Mr. Hull, not a Roosevelt ripsnorter...
...view, with war threatening, the President should be relieved of the necessity of declaring an embargo on "arms, ammunitions and implements of war" at war's outbreak. The need to preserve a neutral's rights under international law was his formal argument for revision, but he restated Franklin Roosevelt's interventionist intentions to the satisfaction of the Isolationists who had blocked them, when he said...
...Franklin Roosevelt's new Federal Security Administrator, Paul Vories McNutt, was confirmed in office last week by the Senate. He promptly proceeded to evacuate the Public Health Service (one of his charges) from its handsome three-story stone home on Constitution Avenue. "Finest campaign headquarters in America," cracked an observer, and at White House press conference, reporters asked Franklin Roosevelt sly questions about his appointee's chances for the 1940 nomination. This irritated the President, who lectured his hearers about reading political implications into the appointment. But he, too, was sly. He explained that Indiana's McNutt...
...Changed its mind, joined the Senate in voting (221 to 124) to support at $12,000 per year a privately built library .at Hyde Park for Franklin Roosevelt's books and State papers. Admission to the grounds: 25?. Fumed Republican Dewey Short of Missouri: "Not even immortal Shakespeare or Milton or Wordsworth would have the unmitigated gall and brazen effrontery to ask that a monument be erected to them to house their precious pearls of wisdom before their death. . . . Egocentric megalomaniac!" Minnesota's Republican Knutson suggested the papers be brought to Washington so that future statesmen might learn...