Word: hyde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt began last week by driving out to his front gate to look with interest on the newest thing in antiaircraft guns as the motorized 67th Coast Artillery passed through Hyde Park. He closed the week by welcoming at his mother's house the People's Mandate Committee and listening with interest to its plea for Peace. But only two problems took much of his time out of his week of fun. One was Drought, the other Politics...
...vote for Roosevelt. Charles Pettijohn of Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America dropped by to tell the President that his popularity, as gauged by audience response to newsreels, was once more on the upgrade. New Dealish James Cromwell brought his new wife, the onetime Doris Duke, to a Hyde Park lunch with the Roosevelts...
Still unready to begin partisan campaigning, but fairly brimming with first-hand flood knowledge, President Roosevelt returned to Hyde Park for some more rest...
Last week the League's first national meeting was held in Washington, attended by representatives from 48 States. Wrote Franklin Roosevelt from Hyde Park: "I am sincerely proud that you are gathering in support of my candidacy." Best measure of the League's loyalty to Nominee Roosevelt was its violent opposition to Nominee Landon. "God help the American people," roared John Lewis, "if all they have to depend on in the future is that degree of consideration which will come from this little man out in Topeka, Kans., who has no more conception nor idea of what ails...
Biggest news linking Nominee Landon with the Drought last week came not from the Governor but from President Roosevelt, who informed newshawks at Hyde Park that he would invite the Governors of Iowa, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Missouri and Kansas to a Drought conference with him early next month. "Kansas?" asked a reporter. "Why not?" smiled the President...