Word: requesters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time since he took office Franklin Roosevelt had to use his Presidential power to fire a member of his sub-Cabinet. The officer who refused to honor the customary request for a resignation was Assistant Secretary of Commerce Ewing Young Mitchell, attorney and anti-machine Democrat from Missouri. Secretary Roper issued a soapy explanation that an engineer rather than a lawyer was required for the .job. got the President to appoint Engineer John Monroe Johnson from Mr. Roper's own South Carolina as Assistant Secretary. Two days after the ouster Attorney Mitchell charged that. "improper favoritism and graft...
...returned to Washington to review the final parade of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. Sitting in a covered stand before the White House while the Shriners marched past him in a pouring rain, he was in high spirits, because by his telephoned request two of his best Roman Catholic advisers, Postmaster General Farley and SEChairman Kennedy, had hurried over to join him in honoring the Protestant "Nobles" plodding by with the red and blue dyes of their sateen regalia running into Pennsylvania Avenue. ¶ "If anybody asks you to discriminate because of politics...
...intense interest which is being manifested in my speech here causes me to proceed with almost undue caution, and I feel almost impelled to request Senators to restrain themselves lest they applaud me as I proceed with my lecture on this question. ... I will read a little further...
Throughout the night the press gallery helped him out by sending down suggestions for request numbers-his opinions on Frederick the Great, on the life of Judah P. Benjamin, on his uncle in the saloon. He obliged...
...from Newark to a Manhattan pier where, with nother melodramatic dash, she sped up he crew's gangplank to the captain's cabin of the Kungsholm. Again shy Miss Garbo merged, sweeping her long lashes at her fellow passengers. Finally an 11-year-old wandered up to request an autograph. This time secretive Greta Garbo vanished for good. In Buffalo, Animal Trainer Clyde Beatty was threatened with arrest by the local S. P. C. A. if he did not stop "prodding and beating" his circus lions. Said the S. P. C. A. agent: "Lions are the nicest...