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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt experienced the satisfaction last week of one who, having raised his voice above those of angry disputants, hears them hush, sees their blows momentarily arrested. All American nations last week murmured admiring endorsements of his message the week-end previous to A. Hitler & B. Mussolini (TIME, April 24). Several European nations which would benefit from the ten-year peace pledge he proposed, offered grateful applause. Hitler reserved his reply for this week, only Mussolini jeered in a sarcastic rejoinder (see...
...expected, isolationist outbursts in the press (notably Hearst's) and Congress were evoked by the President's promise of U. S. participation in a world disarmament and economic conference. But a Gallup poll revealed that 73% of the U. S. people "would like to see the heads of the leading nations" confer...
Point was lent to this suggestion when Senator Taft accused the President of "ballyhooing" the foreign situation to divert public attention from trouble at home (see p. 21). This charge was so serious that it may well boomerang and should war come in Europe, it would point to Franklin Roosevelt as a statesman-who-foresaw, might well improve his chances of a third term...
...from which Mrs. Roosevelt resigned because of its refusal to let Negro Contralto Marian Anderson sing in Constitution Hall. Mrs. Roosevelt was en route by air from Seattle to Boston, to attend the funeral of her brother Gracie Hall's son Daniel, killed flying in Mexico (see...
Attorney-General Murphy's pep meetings for U. S. District Attorneys (see p. 16) and the National Parole Conference were occasions in Washington last week calling for speeches by a man whose thin, shrill voice is seldom heard outside the House of Representatives, though there it commands respect: Representative Hatton Walker Sumners of Dallas, Tex., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee...