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...contents apparently made the President happy. At his press conference next day, Franklin Roosevelt bubbled with good cheer. The Old Optimist was in high good humor. Relations between himself and Joseph Stalin, he told the newsmen, were excellent...
What Is an Optimist...
...Optimist Trecker. A few toolmakers still like the looks of their industry. Among the most conspicuously cheerful is Joseph L. Trecker, vice president of Milwaukee's Kearney & Trecker, which makes one-third of all the milling machines in the U.S. (TIME...
...that he had asked British permission to see India's imprisoned Mohandas K. Gandhi and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, and that the permission had been refused. India's Viceroy, the Marquess of Linlithgow, took Phillips on a tiger hunt instead. Commented London politicos: "Phillips would indeed be an optimist if he thought he could converse with Gandhi and Nehru...
...courage, Dutch stubbornness, and physical optimism this was not a matter of awful concern. He has never minded reaching a low point the year before an election. But on the day of his anniversary came strong strictures from a longtime thick-&-thin Roosevelt supporter, strictures to make even an optimist look to his political fences. Said the New Deal New York Post...