Word: home
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...measure of civilization is streamlined cars and buildings, offices decked with convenient chairs where dyed blonde secretaries can sit, I can safely say that the Arabs do not care for such civilization. The Jews claim that Palestine is their home because they lived there about 2,000 years ago, I would like to see some Americans of Anglo-Saxon descent go back to England and claim it as their own or, further back, the Saxons going to Germany to claim Saxony which surely was their home...
...guests, said the President, would form a committee to raise funds for his plan, taking as their first contribution Mr. Roosevelt's earnings on his already published papers. A historical precedent will be set: Franklin Roosevelt's home becomes Government property. The homes of such predecessors as Washington, Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln are all maintained by private organizations. The Roosevelt history trove will include the President's books and pictures on the Navy (best private collection in the U. S.) and a sizable collection on the history of Hyde Park and Dutchess County. Chief lacuna...
Franklin Roosevelt last week conducted a school for ambassadors. Home for a seminar on U. S. foreign policy were Hugh Wilson (Berlin), William Phillips (Rome) and William Bullitt (Paris). On the way from London was Joe Kennedy (nominally on his way to Florida to spend Christmas with his son Jack), and called home from China was Nelson Johnson, who by traveling his fastest can reach Washington next month...
...Howard totted up the financial and political rewards of the two months he served in 1936-37. His accomplishments, he said, were to 1) land a couple of WPA projects, 2) help a man get out of jail, 3) get some Congressional Directories and Capitol calendars for friends back home. His rewards: he has enough stationery to last the rest of his natural life; he gets invited out a lot more than he used to be. "For instance," he says, "I now go to two or three funerals a week...
Just so none of Der Angriff's readers would miss the contemporary point of this parody-parable, the face of Mme Magda Lupescu, the part-Jewish mistress of Rumania's King Carol, was used to illustrate the article. And to ram it home, next day the Frankfurter Zeitung's comment on Carol's shooting of Rumanian Nazis was concluded with the observation: "At some time, one is inclined to believe, Rumania will see a revolution, perhaps very soon...