Word: rooseveltisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt again announced that a foreign submarine had been sighted far inside the prescribed "safety band" of U. S. waters-this time off Miami...
...Associated Press, surveying the Thanksgiving Day situation, reported the following score: 22 States for Franklin Roosevelt and Nov. 23; 23 (including all New England) for tradition and the last Thursday in November. Mississippi is undecided ; both Thursdays will be observed in Texas and Colorado...
...Grandfather Franklin Roosevelt last week came reports from Grandmother Eleanor Roosevelt that Grandson No. 5, John Roosevelt Boettiger, is "the most friendly, happy baby I have seen in a long while." Grandmother marveled at John's strength, made with him the most widely printed U. S. picture of the week...
Another Eleanor Roosevelt story came via Walter Winchell, who reported that William Allen White had thus inscribed a gift copy of Mrs. Roosevelt's autobiography (This Is My Story), "This is a swell story of the wisest, kindest, dearest, smartest First Lady I have ever known, and my candidate for Franklin's third term...
...that the Nazis were sincere in their proposals. On the face, Hitler's speech reeks of a thousand old assurances and a thousand old lies. Yet this time his desire for peace may be real enough, even if his appetite is not appeased enough, that he will give Mr. Roosevelt definite guaranties of his good faith. He has never before offered to disarm...