Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...devoted his attention to Southern Negroes, who usually can't vote but have enfranchised Northern brothers who could play hob next year by swinging back to the Republican Party. At famed Tuskegee Institute (for Negroes) he locked arms with its distinguished, white-wooled Agricultural Chemist George Washington Carver (see cut), called the students "my boy and girl friends...
...Warm Springs Roosevelt had less relaxation than usual. He made no public comment on the speeches of Adolf Hitler at Wilhelmshaven, of Neville Chamberlain in Parliament (see p. 19), but he talked long on the telephone with his foreign relations experts both at Washington and abroad. While he vacationed his special train stood ready on a siding 70 miles from Warm Springs for a quick return to the Capital. "A source close to the President" gave out that Adolf Hitler must be plotting to extend his conquests beyond Europe into Asia, into the Americas...
...Franklin Roosevelt took delight in "scooping" the correspondents assigned to cover him on news of the arrival in Seattle of his No. 5 grandson, a 9-lb. 1-oz. Boettiger (see...
Economy's Woodrum leaped to his feet. "If I had to live on rations like that," he retorted, "I would write my Congressman here . . . and plead with him to do everything in his power to see that the WPA used the money Congress appropriated for it for food, instead of throwing it away on a lot of foolishness...
Avowed purpose of the Act is to see that workers who wish to bargain collectively with their employer may do so through a union of their own choosing. To accomplish this, the Act: 1) forbids employers to interfere in any way with the workers' choice, even if the interference benefits a supposedly bona fide union, and 2) gives the administrators discretion to make sure that when a group of workers wants a union, they get the one preferred by a majority...