Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What manner of man is he? How did he keep himself from tossing about in the throes of sleep and scrambling the egg ? To what does TIME attribute this astonishing muscular control? From all appearances it would seem that Mr. Ryder is better fitted to show the public "How to Sleep" than Robert Benchley...
...first vacation since Thanksgiving. His favorite cruiser Houston awaited him off Key West to take him out to the navy's game of defending the Panama Canal (TIME, Feb. 20). The Presidential fishing rods were already on the Houston. Lest citizens suppose he was a frivolous President, Mr. Roosevelt packed into his last two days ashore several statements calculated to keep the country thinking well...
...Europe buzzed excitedly about Mr. Roosevelt's ominous, mysterious "reports." U. S. observers guessed that he might be fighting crisis with crisis, as forest fires are fought. If European crisis-criers (see p. 19) were right and another Munich was really in the offing, his diplomatic flaring might give its makers pause. > Word was that the President would appoint Supreme Court Justice Brandeis' successor before going south. It was understood the new man must be a Westerner. Several names, none of them a standout, were in the air. Then something happened: a journalist friend recollected that extremely able...
...resignation of last week: socialite Wayne Chatfield Taylor as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, vice president of the Export-Import Bank. One reason: discomfort over the Administration's foreign-fiscal policy (loan to China, airplane procurement for France-see col. 2). Another reason: difficulty in getting along with Mr. Henry Morgenthau...
...home a solid bloc of votes to which enough Democrats may add themselves to constitute a majority. Last week's proposed Democratic strategy was equally simple: to arouse Democrats, who have a 92-vote majority on paper, to attend House sessions in numbers sufficient to study and meet Mr. Martin's moves on a party as well as legislative basis. Dissenting members of the Democratic caucus emerged from it in sufficient numbers to generate the above headline-of-the-week. For the spirit of revolt still outweighed the spirit of unity in the Majority party...