Word: hyde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week President Roosevelt spent his quietest seven days since the war began. He traveled from Hyde Park to Warm Springs, with a brief stop-over in Washington, dedicated a community centre, made a joke about the third term, carved a turkey at the Thanksgiving dinner for the patients at the Warm Springs Foundation, looked over his 2,500-acre Georgia farm, held a press conference at the roadside while sitting at the wheel of his car, discussed taxes, and in general provided reporters with nothing to write about...
Visitors. At Hyde Park: Poet Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of Congress; Candidate Paul McNutt; Representative Keller; Painter Henry Billings, who talked over the paintings for the new library...
...Hyde Park, got his specially-designed Ford stuck hubdeep in Dutchess County swampland, was unstuck by Secret Service...
...days later at Hyde Park the President laughed heartily at his own remark. An unabashed lover of his own jokes, he said he had added the sentence to trap newspapermen into believing that he might seek a third term, that the effect was terrific, about as funny as a crutch, and that he had got a kick out of seeing the faces of the reporters present. Trouble with this, according to Raymond Clapper, was that few reporters had paid much attention, and that certainly few had fallen into the President's trap...
...Laying the cornerstone of the new Franklin Roosevelt Library on his mother's estate at Hyde Park, the President announced the library would be completed by next July, that his papers would be available there to authorized persons by July 1941. Since the Library will hold 6,000,000 documents, covering the President's career from the time he was New York State Senator, this looked like an indication that he would not run. No U. S. President has made his correspondence accessible to students and biographers while holding office. But political sleuths pondered: cataloguing the collection will...