Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...history: anniversary of 1) the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and 2) the sinking of the Titanic. Auguries and omens are things which Franklin Roosevelt ignores. Last week, he began April 14 by working till 2 145 a. m. preparing the message to Congress. After six hours' sleep, he rose, breakfasted, sent the message to the Capitol, delivered the Pan-American Day speech at the Pan-American Union Building, received six Campfire Girls and a delegation of United Automobile Workers officials, and delivered the fireside chat...
...House then rose for the Easter recess, and M. P.s had leisure to read other pertinent comments on Adolf Hitler made last week by his boyhood friend, Fritz Grunscheder, today working in a New Britain, Conn, brewery. Said Mr. Grunscheder: "I can remember lots of times when we would call Adolf over and tell him he could come with us to where there were some good apples to be snitched. But Adolf could never come. His father worked for the Government and it would be bad if he got caught. It was as if he had to set an example...
...excitable Boston press announced the Hicks appointment with screaming headlines, horrified patriots saw Harvard's gleaming crimson turning dirty red. In annual session at the Bradford Hotel, 20 ancients of the Grand Army of the Republic rose to their shaking feet, quavered a unanimous protest. In the State Legislature, a committee investigating subversive activities was given another month's lease on life, and Representative Francis X. Coyne introduced a bill to remove the tax exemption of any educational institution employing a known Communist or Fascist...
...rounded wood carving was called Sculpture Conjugate because his wife worked on it too. In defense of both, long, indignant letters began to uncurl in London newspapers. Director Guggenheim swore that she would pay the duty if necessary but the show must go on. Liberal members rose in the House of Commons and spoke haughtily of J. B. Manson. It may have been pointed out to Mr. Manson that an identical case came up in the U. S. in 1926 when customs officials denied duty-free entry to Brancusi's famous Bird in Space-a case decided in favor...
...save the Constitution." As he projected himself back into the days when first he heard those words, the Vagabond remembered the noisy campaign, with the bandying of "liberty," "democracy," and the "American form of government." He remembered the crowds, the noise, and the national frenzy that rose to a fever pitch one warm November day, and then subsided. He remembered hearing that golden voice as it swore to "preserve, protect, and defend" the Constitution. He remembered all these things--and then, as if in echo, he heard again, "We must take action to save the Constitution from the court...