Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Staff Work. This year the political firm of Roosevelt, Farley & Co. approaches the November election in a high state of hope. The head of the firm, despite sporadic booing, remains extraordinarily popular with customers who must be resold. His health holds up as well as his glowing confidence. His campaign will be simple: "Things are getting better & better. We planned it that way. Let's have four years more of Democratic Recovery." The Party debt has been cleared away and millions of voters living on government bounty will not be allowed to forget who feeds them. And, above...
...Club, Queen "Coco" will watch R. E. ("Rube") Tipton, steamship agent, proceed down Canal Street on a papier-mâché throne at the head of the Rex Parade. In ermine cloak and rhinestones, she will rise and stand with outstretched arms as Rex rides past, drinking her health in champagne...
...time (1904-06) Secretary of Commerce and Labor, onetime (1906-08) Secretary of the Navy; in Oakland, Calif. When President Theodore Roosevelt used his objective report to force California to back down on its anti-Japanese restrictions, his political influence suffered greatly and he later resigned in ill health...
...noisiest basketball row broke last week. Undefeated in 20 games, New York University's team of one Swede, one Irishman and eight Jews lost to Georgetown, 36-10-34. Aftermath was a sizzling editorial in one of N. Y. U.'s four campus papers charging that the "health and safety of the players" was endangered by "Georgetown's insane . . . Jew-hating following," demanding that athletic relations be severed...
Since 1931, however, the hardest anti-Roosevelt whisper to down has been the one about his health. One day last April an Associated Press photographer snapped the President at a baseball game yelling and popping peanuts into his mouth. Worse was a photograph he took in which a trick of light had made the President look ghastly pale. Its publication brought the White House a storm of anxious letters inquiring about the President's health. Distraught, Secretary Early declared a ban on all candid cameras around the White House...