Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very much surprised to read in TIME, Dec. 5 that Mrs. Chamberlain had sent an old shirt of Mr. C's to a shirt collector in the U. S. I was surprised because after what happened at Munich, I doubted very much that he had one left...
...second Congressional problem faced the President hard upon the first: the major threat to his Administration which Chairman Martin Dies of the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities seemed to be rapidly becoming. Mr. Dies put out last week a report which loudly attacked Secretary of Labor Perkins for "unbelievable laxity" in handling alien agitators, Secretary of the Interior Ickes for baiting the Committee, Secretary of Commerce Hopkins for harboring Communists in WPA. Mr. Dies demanded $150,000 to continue his investigation, and the President learned that many another Congressman's mail was filled with warnings that Mr. Dies...
This confronted the President with a formidable threat to his Cabinet. He had an answer to it at press conference last week. His answer was to announce with gusto that his new Attorney General, Frank Murphy-the man whom Mr. Dies last fall accused of being too soft on communistic sitdowners-would have Department of Justice agents investigate all charges of subversive activities made by Mr. Dies. Meanwhile, to keep from casting fuel on flames, Secretary Ickes was restrained from delivering an oratorical blast entitled "Loaded Dies...
...State of the Union. Diana's father can tell her that, up to a point, it was Franklin Roosevelt's most smashingly successful message since his "The only thing we have to fear is Fear" speech of March 1933. After the November elections had showed Mr. Roosevelt's political stock at a six-year low, last week's speech seized and dramatized the issue on which Mr. Roosevelt's personal popularity in the land was already sharply reviving: the U. S. v. Dictatorship...
...amazed and overjoyed the other morning to read an autobiography entitle "The Last Republican at Harvard" printed right on the front page. It was the work of one of Harvard's great coming authors, Mr. Fred J. Sears '42. I speak with confidence, for I have been acquainted with Mr. Sears; type of genius for years. His description of a projected single-handed attack on "those (censored) truce-breaking truckdrivers" in Boston should convince the most skeptical of his virility. I congratulate you on your policy of giving young authors a chance to try their wings: I know...