Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Should Mr. Shields be so unfortunate as to fracture his hip, lie in a hospital eight weeks, flat on his back in a Bradford frame, leg being stretched by ropes and pulleys and weights, said leg being held immobile by a yard-long sandbag on either side, an alert physician and a bevy of nurses standing by like eagle-eyed engineers, he will learn that one may be kept from "tossing about in the throes of sleep" until he may hatch out a whole dozen eggs "scrambling" nary a one, and no "marvel" at all. "This astonishing muscular control" will...
Under-Secretary John Hanes solved this phraseological problem at the Treasury by having printed in black on a batch of blue cards, to be attached to interoffice correspondence, an oft-repeated question of Secretary Morgenthau: "Does it contribute to Recovery?" At the White House, when Mr. Roosevelt expressed displeasure at "appeasement," correspondents asked him for a better word. He mused a while, then said he would look in his Thesaurus, tell them later...
...Majority Leader Barkley told the President that Senate confirmation of Wisconsin's pinko Tom Amlie-offensive to businessmen-to the ICC was doubtful, thereby giving rise to expectation that Mr. Amlie's name would be withdrawn...
...give the cattle [Business] a chance to put some fat on their bones." That spring came the Supreme Court fight. Unwilling to help "The Boss" in that struggle, the Vice President asked and got permission to go home, go fishing. Joe Robinson was fighting Mr. Roosevelt's battle as well as he could. But the effort killed Joe Robinson. After the funeral at Little Rock, Ark., John Garner went straight to Franklin Roosevelt, plainly told him his Court plan was beaten, but he still was loyal enough to engineer a compromise that saved some face...
...half hours with the President, trying to tell him that the November election results were not (as a famed Janizariat chart purported to prove) a collection of local overturns, but first evidence of a popular trend to the Right, toward economy. Ray Tucker, oldtime Washington correspondent who enjoys Mr. Garner's confidence more than most men, reported that in this session the Vice President told the President to "decide whether you're gonna get on or get off," and, "For God's sake, Mister President, have the baby...