Word: rooseveltisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Life with Father was life at the White House for the children of Theodore Roosevelt. They crawled through the space between ceiling and floors, dragged their spotted pony into the elevator, whooped on roller skates down the historic hallways, walked on stilts up the circling stairways, with Father egging them on, often whooping it up ahead of them. Less like his father than the other children, but his father's favorite, Kermit followed in Father's boisterous wake, but liked to take books out of the Library of Congress and read while Archie and Ted played, argued with...
...Father's death, Kermit Roosevelt carried on the family tradition, but the old whoop and holler was gone. Banking in Buenos Aires, war service with the British and U. S. Armies (he served with the British in Mesopotamia, commanded an artillery battery in the U. S. Army), shipping after the War, exploration in China, hunting in India, books about the Far East-Son Kermit could follow the pattern of Father's life but he could not quite get its spirit. Last week it became plain that Kermit Roosevelt, plump and 50, had followed Father's fading footsteps...
...Office-holding Washingtonians began to receive their annual invitations to the Jackson Day dinner, set for next Jan. 8, grumbled their usual grumbles at the price ($100), but decided to be there in case Guest-of-Honor Franklin Roosevelt took that occasion for a third-term pronouncement...
...Senior Laborite M. P. Colonel Josiah Wedgwood, who has given the House of Commons many an unorthodox thought on Palestine, taxes, President Roosevelt and India, bet Laborite M. P. Richard Stokes ?5 ($20) that London would not be bombed during the War's first six months. Owner of big, money-making Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Ltd., Colonel Wedgwood has nevertheless recently howled about Britain's "ferocious income tax." As retrenchment he plans to move out of his sumptuous home and live in a trailer at Barlas-ton, near his constituency...
...Strong Man ordered his stooge President Dr. Federico Laredo Bru to dissolve the Cuban falange, an offshoot of Spanish Fascism, and legalize the Cuban Communist Party, which soon boasted 25,000 dues-paying members. Strong Man Batista's subsequent spectacular State visits in Washington to New Dealer Roosevelt and in Mexico City to even Newer Dealer Cardenas seemed to go over big with the Cuban populace. The Strong Man's return from these visits was celebrated in Havana with unprecedented popular rejoicing and wild huzzas. Last week, the Communists swung into line behind "Liberal" Batista as the Cuban...