Word: frequenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After an informal dinner for 70, at which Senator Russell of Georgia and Governor Blanton Winship of Puerto Rico (also a Georgian) were guests, the President and his guests sat down to one of the movie shows which constitute frequent White House entertainment. It began with a newsreel. Suddenly a tousled man flashed on the screen. "The trouble with the people in Washington is that they have had common sense educated out of them," he cried. Senator Russell and Governor Winship began to laugh. Franklin Roosevelt let out a hearty roar: that Georgia's recalcitrant Governor Talmadge should tear...
...bigger business wigs than the rank & file of Chambermen-men like U. S. Steel's Myron Taylor, American Telephone & Telegraph's Walter Gifford, Chase National Bank's Winthrop Aldrich, General Electric's Gerard Swope-the so-called Roper Council drops into the White House for frequent Sunday evening chats. Radicals regard it suspiciously as a hotbed of Fascism...
...intelligent youngsters are worth their salt if they have not, at some stage of their education, passed through a phase of doubt and questioning. It is a healthy sign of intellectual growth to seek to know the whys of our present system--even when this is accompanied by the frequent question "Why not otherwise...
...people could still wonder whether the naval architects knew how the Ship of State would finally look. That, explained the President, was why he took frequent trips to Hyde Park and the Caribbean. "To get away from the trees, as they say. and to look at the whole woods. . . . Did you ever stop to think that there are, after all, only two positions in the nation that are filled by the vote of all the voters- the President and the Vice President? That makes it particularly necessary for the Vice President and for me to conceive of our duties toward...
...course, in the room alone, each, I am sure, giving the other his full confidence.'' Says Millis: "It was a dangerous illusion for a diplomatist at a moment like that one." Page soft-pedalled Wilson's sharpest notes to the British Government, drew frequent Wilsonian rebukes: "Beg that you will not regard the position of this Government as merely academic. Contact with opinion on this side the water would materially alter your view. . . ." But long before the U. S. joined the Allies, Page had become, in Wilson's eyes, "just another Englishman...