Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...started on his two-week tour to the Northwest, Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared that the purpose of the trip was "intake," that he wanted to see for himself how the country was faring under the New Deal and how the country liked it. Last week, back in Hyde Park, it was clear that whatever else he had taken in, Franklin Roosevelt had thoroughly absorbed one thing from the huge crowds that had turned out to see and hear him: assurance that he was as popular as ever in the Northwest...
...last week after his reassuring tour, he likes his crises not singly but in bunches. On the way home last week, he stopped off at Chicago to dedicate a bridge and incidentally revise U. S. foreign policy of the last some 15 years (see col. 3). In Hyde Park the next day he sprang another rabbit. Sitting on the stone porch of his mother's house he gave a press conference to understand that he had practically made up his mind to call a special session of Congress next month, to start "spadework" on new legislation. He immediately laid...
...Franklin Roosevelt drove through cheering lines of thousands of Chicagoans to see his old friend, Chicago's top Roman Catholic, George Cardinal Mundelein. Dressed in a black cassock, scarlet mantle and scarlet skullcap, the Cardinal met the President at the door of his gloomy mansion across from Lincoln Park. After a chat in the archiepiscopal throne room, he and the Cardinal sat down to a private snack of fried chicken...
Back in Hyde Park, reporters made one more effort to get a direct Presidential comment on Associate Justice Black. When a reporter read the President's previous statement, implying that it implied there might be another, Franklin Roosevelt's smile vanished. He announced that he had not heard from Justice Black since his return from Europe and that he had nothing more to say about the matter...
January 15 will be the closing date for the receipt of applications for the followships, and grants will be announced on April 1. Application blanks may be secured from John E. Pomfret, fellowship secretary, at 230 Park Avenue, New York...