Word: pressings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Borah's shadow, and the threat it represented, had caused Franklin Roosevelt to change his mood and tactics. Suddenly honey-sweet to the press he had often lambasted, Franklin Roosevelt now turned his full charm on his opponents: solicitously he consulted Republican leaders about a special session; then on the dissident Democrats. Twice he called the Mississippi fox, Pat Harrison, by long-distance telephone. He condoled Georgia's Walter George on an eye-operation (13 months ago he strove to end George's career). He appointed James Elliott Heath (a close crony of Virginia's Carter...
...Borah men lay in their power to rouse and rally emotional opinion. Yet such good Republicans as Frank Knox, Alf M. Landon (both of whom this week were called to the White House), Nicholas Murray Butler. Henry Lewis Stimson, were all for embargo repeal. Editorially, the U. S. press was almost unanimous behind him. Out of Washington came the reminiscent cry "a little block of willful...
...idea was planted in his head last month by bumptious, able MBS Commentator Fulton Lewis Jr., who got Washington press galleries opened to radio reporters (TIME, May 8). At a small dinner party in Washington, Fulton Lewis heard Colonel Lindbergh on war in the world, peace in the U. S., and suggested that he broadcast his thoughts. On a Sunday afternoon three weeks later, Charles Lindbergh urgently telephoned Commentator Lewis, asked whether the offer of radio time was still good. It was, said Mr. Lewis. Hero Lindbergh then drafted a speech. His wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, writer of repute (Listen...
...week none of this mattered: only what Stalin could say to Saracoglu, what Saracoglu could say to Stalin; whether Turkey, breaking with Britain and France, would join with Stalin and Hitler in another move for "peace" as devastating as the German-Russian Pact had been. Said the astute Associated Press, employing the language of Metternich: Turkey, while committed to Britain and France, had reaffirmed "her warm friendship for the Soviet Union, whose troops are massed along her frontiers...
Continuing her independent attitude toward the war, bone-dry, Virginia-born Lady Astor-who has so far: 1) demanded that boys under 20 be exempt from conscription; 2) seen her four sons (all over 20) join up-this week carried on. She planned to press the British Government to reintroduce the "Dutch Treat" rule of World War I, which, forcing people to buy their own drinks, protected men and women on duty "against hospitality by the public...