Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deeply appreciated. . . ." However, until week's end when Mrs. Roosevelt was well enough to rise and entrain for New York she could not enjoy the kindly President's company, for he deserted her in order to attend his mother's 82nd birthday party at Hyde Park. Here all week in squirely fashion he entertained such notables as Winfield and Maria Jeritza Sheehan; Joseph E. Davies and Mrs. Marjorie Post Hutton Davies; Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney; Secretary Wallace; Edward A. O'Neal of the Farm Bureau Federation; John G. Winant of the Social Security Board; Charles...
None of these visitors, however, matched in importance a group of 27 who descended in a body on Hyde Park one afternoon. For three long months of an important political campaign Franklin Roosevelt had not appeared before the public save in his full magisterial dignity as President of the U. S. In that non-partisan role he lost little if any campaigning advantage. Although he could not directly attack his political opponent, he could draw audiences, obtain free radio time, effectively expound his own political doctrines not as though seeking power but with the noble air of using his power...
Last week Democratic Nominee Franklin Roosevelt made his big 1936 bid for the farm vote. In addition to such boons as AAA, FCA, RA which he has in the past three years offered Agriculture, in a swift play from Hyde Park he upped this already respectable ante. He appointed a committee headed by Rural Electrification's Morris L. Cooke to figure out a long term anti-drought program. He appointed another committee headed by Secretary Wallace to draw up plans for some form of crop insurance on at least one or two major crops. He wrote to the Senate...
...Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., British Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain and French Finance Minister Vincent Auriol got together by transatlantic and trans-Channel telephone and apparently achieved precisely what the President had derided in 1933. Mr. Morgenthau was of course acting for the President, but at Hyde Park last week Mr. Roosevelt did not actually eat any words, refused absolutely to comment on the reduction of the French franc to a new value at which it was jointly stabilized with the dollar and the pound...
...when a pitched ball knocked him unconscious in 1934. But he was in the lineup the next day, hit three triples in five innings. Closest call of all came when Gehrig was laid up with acute lumbago. To save his record, Manager Joe McCarthy had him motored to the park, put him at the head of the batting order instead of his usual position of 4th, made arrangements to have him whisked back to his sick bed as soon as he could contrive to be put out. To his dismay, Gehrig got a hit. Since his string began Gehrig...