Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...printed a categorical denial by Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. that there was any truth in persistent Virginia gossip that he and Ethel du Pont Roosevelt were planning to divorce. Same day Franklin Roosevelt Sr. asked the press to let him make a trip to visit his son & daughter-in-law and F. D. R. Ill (aged nine months) at Charlottesville as "Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones"-i. e. without reporters. The correspondents were sorry: "Mr. Jones" would still be President of the U. S., they must go along...
...Jones" did motor forth, however, without his usual police escort. He paused for a picnic lunch on Bull Run battlefield, was late for tea at his son's colonial cottage a mile from the University of Virginia campus. Faculty members assured him the boy's law study marks were satisfactory...
...scholarly, war-impoverished Tennessee slaveholder, stringy, hard-jawed Hatton Sumners, 63, is a self-taught authority on law and history (specialty: the 13th Century). When he rises to speak, the House hushes. On an automobile ride in 1937 with the late Majority Leader Joe Robinson, Speaker Bankhead, Majority Leader Sam Rayburn and Senator Ashurst, he announced the first serious opposition to President Roosevelt's plan for altering the Supreme Court by saying: "Boys, here's where I cash in." He would not receive the Court bill in his committee and forced the Senate to consider it first...
...poll of the 22 members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee indicated a scant plurality of five for Senator Pittman's plan to rewrite the law (part of which expires May 1) on a strict cash & carry basis, permitting sales of any U. S. goods to all comers provided they pay in the U. S., transport in their own bottoms...
...When Dean Helen Taft Manning of Bryn Mawr College-isolationist sister of Presidentially ambitious Senator Robert A. Taft who last week accused Franklin D. Roosevelt of "ballyhooing" war in order to play politics (see p. 21)-urged the same committee to stiffen the present neutrality law and make it more instead of less inflexible, arch-isolationist Senator Borah demanded: "Haven't the people [of the U. S.] already made up their minds who is right and who is wrong? The world is already at war. Already things have taken place which make other nations look...