Word: franklin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Servant's Role. When Franklin Roosevelt made his frontal assault on the "nine old men," Hughes reacted, in public at least, with Jovian calm. But he quietly and effectively fought F.D.R.'s effort to pack the court. When Roosevelt stood before him to be sworn in for a precedent-breaking third term, Hughes whispered through his beard: "Franklin, isn't this becoming a trifle monotonous?" A few months later, at 79, he resigned as Chief Justice and retired to a quiet life of quiet honors...
...When the U.S. Constitutional Convention was in labor, old Benjamin Franklin moved that a chaplain be appointed to ask God's help before each session. Alexander Hamilton opposed the motion. According to one account, he made a flowery speech lauding the talents of the assembled delegates, expressing confidence in their wisdom and concluding that he did not see "the necessity of calling in foreign aid." While George Washington stared stonily at Hamilton, the convention carried Franklin's motion. Nevertheless, God is not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution, although He is named in the Declaration of Independence...
...eight years since Franklin Roosevelt and Mackenzie King met at Ogdensburg, N.Y. and pledged their countries to joint action in defense of North America. The agreement still stands, but because it keeps raising questions which have to be settled at the top policy level, U.S. Defense Secretary James Forrestal was in Ottawa last week. After talking things over with his Canadian counterpart, Brooke Claxton, he planned to go to Ogdensburg with Claxton and unveil a plaque commemorating the signing of the agreement...
...death since Franklin Roosevelt's had moved the people-and the press-to such maudlin excess. Between the pumped-up sentimentality of the public mind and the morticianly manners of the public prints, it was impossible to decide which influenced the other more. The genuine tributes to flamboyant George Herman Ruth were drowned in a messy fog of tear-jerking pictures and prose...
...very good, and as I had never been able to pretend that I knew anything about food, I had to be very humble about her criticisms . . . I was very grateful when our daughter joined our household after her husband went overseas, because she could interpret what had then become Franklin's whims far better than I could...