Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This class is hoping and praying that less goes on, especially in Foreign News also in Business and Finance...
...President before or since. In the year since the Court fight, the President may have seemed to have slackened his pace because other of the people's representatives have bestirred themselves. But last week, of the 113,014 Federal employes in Washington, he alone made practically all the news. Renewing his contact with the electorate by radio, addressing Congress for the first time on Recession, communicating unconventionally with the House & Senate tax committees, greeting Pan America, appointing a new Red Cross head, Franklin Roosevelt showed a brilliant dash of the old form (see following columns...
Unabated, the next day he told a press conference that he was planning soon to send the Capitol messages: 1) on removing tax-exemption features from future issues of U. S. bonds and 2) on antimonopoly legislation. Then, having blanketed U. S. front pages by simply making news as completely as any dictator could blanket the columns of a censored press, Franklin Roosevelt polished off his week by attending to his correspondence of some 10,000 letters, watching 30,000 children roll Easter eggs on the White House lawn...
While President Roosevelt was resting over the weekend, his busy brood was, as usual, making news...
Thereupon Henry's 20-year-old sister telephoned Mrs. Roosevelt and packed the boys off to New York under the watchful eye of the Distler chauffeur, James Parker. By the time they had reached Pennsylvania Station, crowds of news photographers were waiting for them. So was the Roosevelt chauffeur, James Kehoe. He rushed up and threw his arms around the boys to shield them from the photographers. Chauffeur Parker, misunderstanding the stranger's purpose, took a swing at Chauffeur Kehoe. While the two guardians traded punches and police leaped into the fray, Dirck Roosevelt became hysterical and Henry...