Word: senting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Earlier the same night in the House, isolationist Democrats ganged up with Republicans to hobble the President on Neutrality. These two blows in one week sent him back to Hyde Park a President angrier, but no less determined, than ever. The session of Congress was by no means over, and Franklin Roosevelt said he would not mind commuting between Hyde Park and Washington all summer. The President and his Congress settled down to a war of wills...
Paul McNutt had a Harvard law degree, a model record among educators as the youngest (34) dean of the Indiana Law School. During the War he became a major of Field Artillery, was never sent overseas. He could make a speech that lifted Legionnaires (or voters) right out of their seats. As national commander, he strode up & down the land making speeches, pumping hands, pounding backs, remembering names, flashing his magnificent smile...
Friends & Enemies. Besides McHale, Elder and Townsend, the Indiana gang behind Paul McNutt now included Sherman ("Shay") Minton, whom they sent to the Senate in 1935; Edmund Arthur Ball of Muncie, member of the rich glass-jar family; and Fred Bays, a dapper, saturnine oldtime dancer and circus man. Him they made Democratic State Chairman, to handle ballyhoo. Besides banners, bands and buttons, Mr. Bays uses tap dancers, a singing cop, contortionists. When the McNutt campaign gets going nationally, the country may see something remarkable...
...enough other Senators to restore the Federal Theatre Project to the 1940 Relief Bill. Miss Bankhead should have hugged more Representatives. When the bill went to conference, the House men simply would not warm up. They killed FTP dead, but they did agree to some other Senate generosities. As sent to the President and signed by him sorrowfully ("definite hardship and inequality on ... 8,000,000 if we count in their families...
...Britons planning to brave the terrors of tourism in the New World, especially to see the "exhibitions" in New York and San Francisco, the Manchester Guardian's New York correspondent last week sent to his paper timely warnings and encouragement...