Word: roosevelt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From Freedom, Me., from Ty Ty, Ga., from Roosevelt, Minn., from Coolidge, Kan.-from some 35,000 Rural Free Delivery routes throughout the land have gone a dime each from country mailmen. Each 10? contribution rolled into Washington to make up a total of $3,500. With this fund a shiny seven-passenger automobile was purchased by the Rural Letter Carriers' Association (membership: 43,700) and rolled to the Post Office Department where it was presented as a farewell gift to Harry H. Billany as he retired as Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, "chief" of the country mailmen...
...hearers the Roosevelt warning sounded like a political war-cry for 1932, the posing of an economic, instead of moral, issue on which democracy might unite...
Said Governor Roosevelt: "The huge mergers and consolidations . . . are challenging in their power the very government itself. The influence of huge trusts, with their almost unlimited resources, will be felt in this country. . . . Their power will have to be combated...
...Theodore Roosevelt the younger, hunting in Asia, grew a beard, as revealed in photographs brought home by his brother Kermit. Also, he wrote a 64-line religious poem, roughly approximating the Kipling manner, sent it to Sportswriter Grantland Rice, who published it in full on July 4 in his syndicated "Sportlight." Excerpts...
Obstructions. The fence which the old Westbury Golf Club intends to put up to keep Roosevelt Field, L. I., flyers from scaring players and tearing up the turf (TIME, July 1), is to consist of steel towers 103 ft. high, 300 ft. apart, with steel wires connecting them, according to last week's plans...