Word: roosevelt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thrust at the Cunard Line, which last fortnight (TIME. Jan. 7) began cutting into U. S. Lines, Havana trade by putting the 20,000-ton Caronia on the New York-to-Cuba route. Angry, the U. S. Shipping Board loaned its crack trans-Atlantic steamer, speed, the President Roosevelt, to the (U. S.) Ward Line, thus promised the Caronia the best competition that U. S. boats could give it. This competition got under way last week when the Caronia and the President Roosevelt left New York. Cuba-bound, on the same day. The Caronia is more costly than the President...
...Smith came home last week. On the day after his 55th birthday he had said goodbye to Albany, given Governor Franklin Roosevelt his blessing, left the capital while a band played "Laugh, Clown, Laugh." Then back to Manhattan he came, checked in at the Biltmore, began the theoretically obscure existence of a private citizen. The theory, however, proved unsound. Newspaper men, camera men, came to the Biltmore. They came to the Prudence Building, Madison Avenue and 43rd Street, where Mr. Smith had opened an office.* They wanted to know what Mr. Smith was going to do now. Annoyed, Mr. Smith...
Ethical. U. S. citizens, devoted to their laws, will approve the Shipping Board's decision to serve no liquor aboard the President Roosevelt...
Practical. U. S. citizens favor youth, speed. As against the Caronia, the President Roosevelt is younger (15 years), and faster (four hours...
Sentimental. U. S. citizens like to patronize U. S. industry. Particularly do they like to honor the late great President Theodore Roosevelt, friend of Cuba, rugged rissaldar of Rough Riders at San Juan Hill...