Word: return
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Return to Law." Next day, and the day of Franklin Roosevelt's trip to the Capitol, was his mother's 85th birthday. "I don't think my son has the slightest wish [for a third term]," said she at Hyde Park. Her son in Washington was guarded almost as though the U. S. were at war. Ringing him, barricading the approaches to the House chamber where he was to speak, were 150 Washington police, extra Secret Service details, 150 Capitol guards. They policed even the press galleries, stopped Attorney General Frank Murphy when he brushed past. Conspicuously...
...German invasion of Poland had waged an overpowering Blitzkrieg against the Presidential hopes of all other Democrats and of many Republicans. Temporarily in the background was John Nance Garner, who believes with "The Boss" that the sane course is a return to international...
There, in his study of politics, he marked well one priceless maxim: always ask for more than you can get, then compromise for half. Thus he could appreciate last week Franklin Roosevelt's stratagem in asking absolute repeal of the Neutrality law and a return to the vague vagaries of international law, in order that a compromise on cash-and-carry would seem to anti-repeal forces like a victory...
...last week was reported to have volunteered from his concentration camp to return to the post he held during World War I, as submarine commander...
...yesterday's scrimmage George Downing and Jim Devine teamed on the A team, while Henry Vander Eb and Bartow Kelly were stationed on the B flanks. The return of Lovett and Koufman tomorrow will mean that Dick Harlow will have six ends, all im- proving daily, all potentially good, and none with any degree of experience...