Word: roosevelt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...praise of whose golden wedding vintage Poet Longfellow wrote "The Queen of the West."* He is fond of good living, used to hard headwork; serene, humorous, fair to a fault though a faithful partisan. His grandfather collected camel's-hair shawls. He has collected friends. Getting Theodore Roosevelt for a father-in-law was a reward of that same industry and wit by which he attained-and not through the father-in-law-to the chairmanship at the meetings of all the stockholders...
...highly melodramatic scenes show the take-off of Lindbergh from Roosevelt Field and his landing at Le Bourget. In both the technical staff of the Chatelet Theatre, famed specialists in scenic effects, nobly acquit themselves...
...whom it did, it led to reconsideration of two little-discussed features of the Democratic outlook. One feature, forgotten in the turmoil of the Smith defeat, was Vice President-Reject Robinson's continued presence in the Senate. With President-Reject Smith retiring to private life and Governor-Elect Roosevelt taking his place in New York, the party's official Number Two Man had been all but forgotten by commentators on the party's potential leadership for the period 1928-1932. The President-Reject unmistakably pointed out the Vice President-Reject as a man to rally around...
...party is as great as he says, might he not some day be persuaded to let public office seek him? Might he not, perhaps, be persuaded to enter Congress? This could easily be effected through a resignation from one friend (Senator Wagner) and an appointment from another (Governor Roosevelt). If by some pressure or prospect this should ever come to pass, a Senator "Al" Smith of New York would without doubt furnish scenes and situations-and perhaps some legislation-remarkable in his own day, memorable for political prosperity. ¶ S. Rurok, Manhattan impresario, offered the President-Reject...
Even the Spectator lost its temper, and the Times required a full week to recover its equanimity. An early Times editorial declared that President Roosevelt once said, "We needed Panama and we took it," and argued that the meaning of President Coolidge's speech is: "When America needs territory she takes it, and when she wants warships she builds them...