Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...August the U. S. abrogated the 1911 Trade Treaty with Japan. And after Admiral Harry Ervin Yarnell retired from command of the China fleet and came home in August to get from Franklin Roosevelt a Distinguished Service Medal for keeping the Japanese in line so far as U. S. nationals were concerned, he kept the fireball rolling. "If the Japanese plans succeed," the Admiral warned, "I doubt very much whether there will be any business for Americans in China." The Ambassador's slap, which was no less stinging for being deft, not only reminded the Japanese that they...
Peppy, pottering Dr. Herbert Putnam, 78, longtime head of the Congressional Library at Washington, D.C. (now librarian emeritus), was given the J. W. Lippincott Award ($500) for distinguished service in librarianship, in accepting told the American Library Association, outspoken opponent of President Roosevelt's selection of Poet Archibald MacLeish to succeed him, that as a Scot, poet, humanist, lawyer, soldier, and orator, Poet MacLeish was a fine man to be Congressional Librarian...
...Worshipping last Sunday in his Episcopal church at Hyde Park, N. Y., President Roosevelt heard a prayer beseeching God to help King George VI vanquish his enemies...
Ideological pontiff of the Christian Front, much as he today denies it, is the rabble-rousing baritone of Royal Oak, Mich., Rev. Charles Edward Coughlin. A successful phenomenon of Depression (during which he espoused inflation), a flop in Recovery (in 1936 he backed William Lemke to beat Franklin Roosevelt for President), Radiorator Coughlin began his comeback in Depression II. One Sunday in November last year, he shook his grey-flecked locks and launched into an explanation of why Hitler was renewing his persecutions of the Jews. Naziism, explained Father Coughlin, was a "defense mechanism" against Communism; and Communism was inspired...
This week Father Coughlin celebrates his 48th birthday, in a new and spectacular way. For him will be held "Birthday Balls," like those for President Roosevelt. In Brooklyn, a Coughlin stronghold, an "American Citizens Committee" will hold a party whose proceeds (tickets 50?, box seats $1) will go to Father Coughlin, who will address the party by wire...