Word: roosevelt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...White House order, Wage-Hour's new administrator and trouble-shooter-tough, able Lieut.-Colonel Philip Fleming of the Army Engineers, whom Franklin Roosevelt selected for the job weeks ago (TIME. Oct. 16)-was under her orders...
...last week Wage-Hour Administrator Elmer Frank Andrews removed his bronze bust of Franklin Roosevelt, his handsome fountain-pen set, other personal belongings from Room 5144 in Washington's Department of Labor Building. Just eight days short of a year since Federal wage-hour regulation began, gloomy, google-eyed Elmer Andrews had resigned by request. His letter of resignation was curtly addressed to "Mr. President." Franklin Roosevelt replied to "Dear Elmer...
Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt joined the hunt, noted:"She [Dorothy Thompson] sensed in Col. Lindbergh's speech a sympathy with Nazi ideals which I thought existed but could not bring myself to believe was really there." (Snapped Hugh Johnson next day at Mrs. Roosevelt: "That is exactly the kind of stuff that got us into the war in 1917.") Plainer people began to sound off. Ex-Heavyweight Champion Gene Tunney called Lindbergh's speech "impertinence." Michigan's Senator Prentiss Brown called it imperialistic. A Reserve Officer chaplain in Seattle spoke of "Herr von Lindbergh." Sculptor Suzanne Silvercruys...
...District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey, reminded voters he was just a country boy at heart by buying the place where he has weekended for two years - a 300-acre farm near Pawling in Dutchess County, New York. GOP-Hopeful Dewey thus became, like his 35-mile-away neighbor, Franklin Roosevelt, a titular constituent of GOP-Hopeful Hamilton Fish. Dewey farm facts: price, $30,300 ($3,000 down); a 175-year-old farmhouse, with front porch suitable for campaign purposes; two tenant houses, 70 head of cattle...
Lord Gort carefully toasted President Roosevelt and paid special deference to the correspondents by saying: "We really welcome your presence here to tell your people what we are doing in France. We regard you as our cooperators and collaborators...