Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...communist basis. Daddy hates every minute of it, but mother has risen to the occasion like an old war horse. After all, she dates from the Franco-Prussian War, so this is nothing new to her. By the way, why isn't America in this scrap? It was Roosevelt who pushed us into...
Last week President Roosevelt left Washington for Hyde Park in time for the first snow of the season. Through sleet and rain he drove to church, stayed to preside as senior warden at a vestryman's meeting. Home to Uvalde on the windswept Texas plains went Vice President John Nance Garner, to a State that has been fussing about a proposed special session of its Legislature, and an appalling murder down at Comanche.* Back to his old Kentucky home (Paducah) went Senate Leader Alben Barkley...
...Chief Charles Linza McNary; House GOP Chief Joseph William Martin studied timetables to Hawaii; House Democrat Chief Sam Rayburn headed home to his beloved shorthorn cattle in Bonham, Texas. By mutual agreement the leaders decided that events did not justify their remaining in Washington to counsel with Franklin Roosevelt as had been promised when the special session assembled...
...undergraduate group began its activity last Spring with strong endorsements from President Roosevelt, Cordell Hull, and a host of public figures, Meeting in New Orleans in April, the Associated Harvard Clubs proposed a graduate committee to ralse funds for the project...
Biographer Pringle thinks that a little more patience and steady thinking on Roosevelt's part might have averted all the discomfort. But he shows also that Taft became more & more conservative as the years passed, that he never had T. R.'s energy nor his intuitive understanding of the progressive movement, that his judicial temper fitted him less for the Presidency than for the Supreme Court, on which he sat as Chief Justice from 1921 until shortly before his death...