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Robert H. Jackson: "Anyone who intends to vote for Willkie had better ask himself what kind of man Willkie would be on the cold morning after the honeymoon of election promises is over...
When the New Deal was young, Franklin Roosevelt used to bask in the warmth of as friendly a press as any President ever had. Gradually that honeymoon waned. Papers began to criticize various New Deal measures editorially, and the President began to take cracks at publishers. Reporters who asked pointed questions were lectured by a Roosevelt who did not smile. New Deal lieutenants like Harold Ickes (who last year wrote a book damning newsmen as America's House of Lords) attacked the press as a tool of Big Business...
...inheritor of $65,000,000 from his father, John Jacob Astor; she for the first time, he for the second; quietly, in Easthampton, L. I. Divorced three weeks ago in Cody, Wyo. by first-wife Helen Dinsmore Huntington, 46, Groom Astor and bride last week sailed for a honeymoon aboard his $1,000,000 Nourmahal, on which he often entertained his Dutchess County neighbor Franklin Roosevelt during Term...
This German-held Paris, despite the gradual homeward trickle of refugees, seemed like a city walking in its sleep. Nazis behaved as if Parisians simply did not exist. Paris' honeymoon with her conquerors was over...
...spoiled passion for his secret wife, Maria Fitzherbert (once, when near death from nerves, hangovers and bloodletting, he wrote a soulful will in her favor), and a funning relationship with catty Lady Jersey. It amused Lady Jersey to put Epsom salts in Caroline's food during the royal honeymoon. After their separation, the Prince indulged his hatred of Caroline by keeping her from their child, Charlotte. Caroline proceeded to mother every unattached infant she could lay her hands on, adopting one "Willikins" who turned out half-witted. In fits of raffish humor she sometimes hinted that Willikins was hers...