Word: notes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addressing King Vittorio Emmanuele, Mr. Roosevelt avoided the cold shoulder Benito Mussolini gave him last April, played for the hold the Italian Crown has upon the Italian People. He urged again the international discussions, military and economic, which he had proposed before. He added this note, which chimed with the Pope's plea: "The Government of Italy and the United States can today advance those ideals of Christianity which of late seem so often to have been obscured" (in Germany and Russia...
...Associate Justice Owen Josephus Roberts of the U. S. Supreme Court took note of Presidential chitchat in his behalf, announced at Scranton, Pa.: "I am wholly unavailable. I am perfectly satisfied where...
...mailcar and had to jump for it with the train still in motion. Joe Stalin could take it. When his hovel-mates accidentally set fire to some stolen stuff he had hid in the stove, he put a hand in the flames, salvaged only one 500-ruble note. When he was captured and was told to run a gantlet of soldiers swinging riding crops, he walked through, head high, holding a book under his arm. Last week this man was trading in empires...
Personally I am not enthusiastic about an education which is administered by a force pump. I do not believe that, by and large, students of science, let us say, obtain much of permanent value when they are compelled (note, I say "compelled") to take a course in "general literature" or "universal history" or a "survey of western art since 1200"; and I am sure that those of a literary or artistic bent are not educated by being forced to take freshman chemistry or physics...
...wishes of "merchants" as his reason for making the change, to give them a holiday nearer Labor Day, farther from Christmas. Mrs. Roosevelt reported: "I got a most amusing letter attributing this change to a desire to help a certain race in this country, which is credited, in this note, with doing most of the 'trading' and which, they say, is not interested in American traditions. . . . But . . . how about remembering how the Yankees always were good traders and perhaps some of them still are in the business...