Word: franklin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Organization to Encourage People to quit Organizations was founded by the Rev. Howard W. Stone of the First Presbyterian Church in Franklin, Ind., in the hope that it would give people more time to go to church. The organization's motto: "Be a Quitter"; its password...
...ending of enmities we celebrate. This tablet to the memory of Franklin Delano Roosevelt proclaims a growth of enduring friendship and a rebirth of brotherhood between two great nations upon whose wisdom, valor and fortitude the future of humanity in no small degree depends...
...Kinsey, the expert on sex statistics, recently tried to get an interview with her, but the matter was dropped when Tallulah agreed "on condition that I can ask you the same questions." Visiting the White House on the heels of a group of reformed women prisoners, she made Franklin Roosevelt roar with laughter at her first words to him: "We'll get along swell. You like delinquent girls...
Courts & Prisons. Rush may have had engaging qualities; his humorless autobiography fails to disclose them. Yet, visiting Europe, he called on great men who not only made him welcome but asked him to come again. Benjamin Franklin, then in London, took him to the court of George III, introduced him to his literary friends, and lent him money. Rush dined with Artist Sir Joshua Reynolds, Novelist Oliver Goldsmith ("He spoke with the Irish accent"), and crotchety Literary Czar Samuel Johnson, who reports Dr. Rush was rude to Goldsmith. Rush even got himself invited as a dinner guest of famed Political...
Perhaps he was a flattering listener. His curiosity was insatiable, and the commonplace books are filled with all sorts of trivia picked up from travelers. Sometimes he merely recorded little but the subjects of his chats: 1786, Sept. 23: conversation with Dr. Benjamin Franklin about the plague in Turkey; 1791, Oct. 8: Mr. Stewart about the horrors of the Hindu religion and the manners of Laplanders...