Word: hand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spent in saying hello to old friends and catching up on his personal affairs, visiting his 2,800-acre farm on Pine Mountain and making out his Federal income tax.* On his first trip in his car he took Daughter-in-law Betsey, his personal secretary Miss Marguerite Le Hand and Ambassador Bullitt. To Columnist Walter Winchell, whose mind runs largely in one channel, the inference from such events was clear. Wrote Gossip Winchell...
Ambassador Bullitt's return to Washington brings him closer to FDR's confidential Girl Friday Marge Le Hand. . . ." To less superficial observers, Bill Bullitt's appearance first at Washington and then at Warm Springs meant much more...
Secretary Hull, who had been studying some first-hand samples of the Nazi tirade, which he refused to release as too obscene for publication in the U. S. press, promptly replied that he had instructed U. S. Ambassador William E. Dodd to make "emphatic comment" to the German Government on its semi-official abuse. Milder than a "protest," diplomatic "comment" requires no reply by the offending Government...
...however high-minded, who proposes to take charge of affairs because he thinks he knows all the answers. Mr. Roosevelt is not ambitious personally, but he has turned into an Eagle Scout whose passion for doing the country a good turn every day has at last got out of hand. His 'Now' remarks were a giveaway- the utterances of a petulant saviour. America doesn't need to be saved today; it can wait till tomorrow. Meanwhile, Mister, we'll sleep...
Postmaster General & Democratic Chairman James A. Farley has been readying to leave Washington for months, and last week his right-hand man, Democratic Executive Director Emil Hurja, announced that he would soon be leaving, too. Famed as a wizard of political analysis after calling the turn in the 1932 and 1934 election's. Statistician Hurja was outdone by his boss last November when he guessed only 376 electoral votes for Roosevelt, against "General" Farley's bull's-eye 523. But that was no more reason for one to leave than for the other to stay. Their Washington...