Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Barred from taking part in Mr. Kerl's referendum (over age) thought I would reassure him through editors of TIME that if, when and as, I am elected Senator of the U. S. from the State of N. Y., his life would be much safer in my deliberations than those of my two sons; one of age and the other longing for and about...
...TIME, Mr. McReynolds plugs for Charles A. Lindbergh as a presidential candidate. In behalf of a few million Americans please allow me to express a preference for Douglas (Wrong-Way) Corrigan...
...Mr. Roosevelt has said that the duty of the U. S. neutrality patrol is to keep tabs on far-roving warcraft in American waters. His obvious, implicit premise last week was that submarines, since the sneaky creatures cannot be watched, had best be kept clear away. When a reporter asked whether armed merchant ships also might be barred from U. S. ports, the President said that comparing such ships and submarines was like trying to add pears and apples. Orally amplifying his proclamation, he explained that belligerent submarines may not come within the traditional three-mile limit...
...Upon receipt of a reply from Joseph Stalin's stooge, old President Kalinin of the U. S. S. R., Mr. Roosevelt made public his admonition to Russia to go easy on Finland (TIME, Oct. 23). The President of the U. S. in a "personal message"-in the diplomatic scale, one short of formal representation-had simply reminded Russia of 1) U. S. friendship for little Finland; 2) the fact that Franklin Roosevelt got the U. S. to recognize the friendless Soviets in 1933. The President of the U. S. S. R. diplomatically told the President...
...correspondent asked Mr. Roosevelt whether the Administration's known intent to ask Congress for still more money for a bigger Big Navy means that he favors a "two-ocean navy." That phrase, said the President, is a beautiful slogan, meaningless in practice. Then he turned to a press-conference guest, Publisher Joe Patterson of the New York Daily News, said the same thing applies to that gentleman's favorite epigram ("Two Ships For One"). What the U. S. must have, the President went on, is a Navy big enough for its maximum, varying defense needs in any ocean...