Word: franklin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year Mrs. Roosevelt may have crossed her fingers. Thus far there has been no sign of chickenpox or tonsillitis (Sister & Buzzie Dall, 1932), sinus (Franklin Jr. 1936) or other ill hap. On hand will be still-ailing Harry Hopkins, Secretary of Commerce, and his bright-eyed, motherless daughter, Diana, 7. And last to open her stocking-by custom-will be the President's 85-year-old mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, still the belle of the Hudson Valley...
...seat him at eye level with those who file by him at official handshaking functions. Terribly tiring are all White House receptions, but worst is the diplomatic reception, social high light of the Washington winter season. With the aid of the "Siege Perilous"-so dubbed by Washington wits-Franklin Roosevelt came paint-fresh through the exhausting ordeal...
Flower. "What else could I do?" City Hall ferrets had their own idea of what the row was about: Franklin Roosevelt's devoted friend Jim Kieran was outraged "because the Mayor lately has buttered up Herbert Hoover...
Lancaster, Pa. is a thriving city with 60,000 inhabitants, six movie houses, but no theatre. No road company has played there since 1930. But, thanks to the enterprising Green Room Club of Lancaster's Franklin and Marshall College, the town is not left playless. Under the direction of scholarly, energetic Darrell Larsen, who has coached plays at F. & M. since 1927, undergraduates produce four shows a season, each running a week. From a male student body of 900,300 try out annually for dramatics-many more than go out for football...
...signed a new contract with the New York Post. Then in Connecticut he took to his bed with bronchitis. To the World-Telegram, a few days earlier than usual, he sent his annual Christmas parable about the two old kings and the young wise man. (His great & good friend, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, once read it at a Christmas ceremony in Washington.) For the Post he wrote but one column...