Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Church on Sunday, drives over his ancestral acres, an address to the local Improvement Association, a picnic on the estate of Squire Henry Morgenthau Jr., open house with family and guests coming & going-these were things that served last week to remind Squire Roosevelt of Hyde Park that he was on vacation from his job. But vacation or no vacation, he was still President of the U. S., still a practicing politician half of whose acts and more than half of whose hospitality was grist for newshawks...
...trip around the world. Just before he went aboard the S. S. President Coolidge he was handed a letter from the President of the U. S. About the same time, on the other side of the continent, Presidential Secretary Steve Early was handing out to the Press at Hyde Park the same letter, together with one Mr. Howard had previously written his good Friend Franklin Roosevelt. When this exchange of correspondence was headlined up & down the land, Democratic politicians beamed. Republicans pooh-poohed, businessmen made weighty statements and the stockmarket zoomed...
...Breathing spell" became the political catchphrase of the day. Delighted with the country's enthusiasm, President Roosevelt told newshawks at Hyde Park: "All I tried to do was to quiet the nerves of some of the boys." No less pleased was Publisher Howard who, before sailing from San Francisco, in effect, telegraphed the President as follows: "Your letter was fine. The story certainly went over...
...telephoned President Roosevelt at Hyde Park. Exulted the President to the Press: "This is another proof that since March 4, 1933, dollar diplomacy is not recognized by the American Government...
...baby carriage along the boulevards on a Sunday morning. Young Leopold as Crown Prince had gone several times to Stockholm to propose to her, traveling in a third-class coach to keep his incognito. There, after their engagement was announced, they used to sit in the public park holding hands...