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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Week prior, to 50,000 enthusiastic Democrats in Little Rock, Ark., Preacher Williams' home, Franklin D. Roosevelt had felicitated himself on the opportunity "to enjoy the kindness and the courtesy of true Arkansas hospitality." The brand of Arkansas hospitality accorded Preacher Williams and Miss Blagden last week swung the spotlight of national attention on the 1936 Arkansas sharecroppers' strike which had been fumbling along unnoticed for four weeks...
...mile swing through the Southwest. With him were Senator Joe Robinson, RFChairman Jesse Jones, Senator Hattie Caraway. Mrs. Roosevelt was to board the train at Memphis. Announced purpose of this "nonpolitical" trip was to attend and make speeches at three historical celebrations-Arkansas' Century of Statehood at Little Rock, the Texas Centennial at Dallas, the dedication of a memorial to George Rogers Clark at Vincennes...
Arriving in Little Rock at 5:30 p. m., the President was motored directly to its unfinished Centennial Stadium, found it pack-jammed with 25,000 people. Facing microphones which carried his voice over the same nationwide hookups which were to broadcast the words of Herbert Hoover at Cleveland an hour later, Franklin Roosevelt delivered the first of a series of set speeches using the events of long-dead history as parables on current politics...
...said Franklin Roosevelt last week at Little Rock, Ark. and he devoted the better part of his week to detailing his reflections. Month ago when the Press described his trip as his first campaign tour he retorted that his speeches would be historical. Historical they were, each picking an ancient example to point a New Deal moral. Thus by laying the foundation of his campaign upon the stones of history, he strove to answer the Republican contention that the New Deal is perverting the traditional institutions of the U. S. His historical fables at Little Rock, Dallas, Vincennes...
...Gloucester, Mass., Coast Guardsmen laboriously towed a dead and odorous 60-ton whale off Bass Rock Beach seven miles to sea, were chagrined that evening to see the whale in Gloucester Harbor, towed in again by a public-spirited yachtsman to remove a menace to navigation...