Word: habits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Second and more important imponderable is Franklin Roosevelt who, as all Washington knows, has an impulsive habit of thinking up things for Congress to do at the last minute. Last year he tossed a new tax bill without warning into the Capitol on the eve of adjournment, precipitated late-summer anguish for all concerned. Now, intent, as he has announced, on a short session of Congress, he has made up his mind to a short legislative program. But at any time he may decide that the U. S. wants a new act to promote low-cost housing, amendments...
...July 1934 it looked as if the jig was up. His habit of kicking and biting policemen earned him another three months in jail, but M. Besson, still trusting in his parliamentary immunity, dismissed this scornfully...
...campaign speeches have been made from the branches of trees or clinging to lamp posts. Thirteen times the voters of Le Puy have elected him either their Municipal Councilor or Mayor. The fourteenth time (1932) they sent him as their Deputy to Paris where he continued his habit of making long speeches at the drop...
...Besson turned to the problems of international finance. To end Depression he suggested an international currency known as "Europa francs," printed bundles of them, insisted on paying for all his purchases with them, a habit less popular with his constituents than his dramatic escapes from the police...
...jumped off a cliff. "I have had a man." he said, "a nicotine slave, writhing upon the floor of my office crying, 'Why didn't someone tell me it was harmful? Why didn't someone tell me it was harmful?' He could not break the habit and he passed on, in agony. . . . My adopted daughter [attractive Mrs. Audrey Ulric Pease Fiedler] often converses with my precious mother, the dear one who passed on at the age of 95 less than ten years ago. Mother says to her, 'Charley is so good ... I have a place...