Word: robinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Robinson's Arkansas...
...broad, flat lawn. Not for lack of invitations had he never before visited the Jefferson Islands Club in Chesapeake Bay. The founders of this sporting organization include some of the most famed Democrats in the land: Owen D. Young, John W. Davis, John J. Raskob, Senators Pittman. Tydings, Robinson. Logically they might have expected a Democratic President who liked outdoor fun to drop in upon them often. If they ever so expected they were mistaken, for President Roosevelt on vacations displayed a pronounced preference for his own New Dealers, rather than for regular Democrats, as companions. So last week when...
Embarking at Annapolis on the Sequoia, the President was accompanied by Senator Robinson, Postmaster General Farley, Speaker Byrns, Vice President Garner. After an afternoon's fishing in the Bay they went ashore at Jefferson Islands, later to find almost every good Democrat in the District of Columbia on hand for an old fashioned political get-together...
...another blast at Senator Tydings when he received a call from the White House. He emerged from a half-hour talk with President Roosevelt to announce that he did not care to discuss the Virgin Islands any further. No sooner had he departed than Senators Tydings, Harrison and Robinson trooped into the White House for a full hour's heart-to-heart with the President. They too marched out mum, but Senator Tydings hurried over to the Senate caucus room, recessed his investigation...
...outsider could thus assail even Huey Pierce Long in his Senatorial capacity without causing the entire Senate to rise in wrath and smite the attacker down. Senator Tydings framed his reply in John Nance Garner's office, with the Vice President and Majority Leader Robinson standing by, many a Senator dropping in to offer aid and encouragement. Excerpts...