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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chattered Howland Spencer: "I like Divine's ideas. He is a great constitutionalist. ... I thought of the steamboats that will bring thousands of colored people from New York to swim in the Hudson here and have picnics on the hills, and it sort of amused me. . . . Whether we meant it or not, this really will annoy Franklin a great deal...
Wheelhorse. Alben Barkley is a dependable, likable, old-dog sort of man whom no one, ten years ago, would have picked as a central character in the national scene. Today, Franklin Roosevelt wants young blood in the Judiciary but not, in this case, in the Senate. More than anything he wants "yes" men in the Senate, not "yes but -" men. In the Majority Leader, a "yes" man is essential. Where would any Administration's steamroller go if the engineer turned and argued about his orders? For this reason Franklin Roosevelt wrote as he did last summer to "Dear Alben...
...Oscar de Fragoso Carmona not with Hitler but with Chamberlain. The Germans had offered to sell armaments to Portugal and make immediate deliveries, but on barter terms-Portugal would have had to pay promptly in goods. The British outbid the Germans by offering Portugal armaments on credit-the sort of "loan" to a useful little ally which in Europe is often simply not repaid...
...Lightweight Paul Runyan, whose tee shots carry no further than the average week-end golfer's, played the sort of game that breaks an opponent's spirit. Although outdriving him 40 to 50 yards on each hole, Snead watched his advantage melt around the greens where Runyan's game was hotter than the noonday sun. At the end of the morning round, Titan Snead was ready to throw his clubs in the nearby Delaware. He had not succeeded in winning a hole. Runyan was 5 up, had been leading ever since the third hole...
Best guess, however, seemed to be that the disturbance was a seiche (pronounced saysh)-that is, an oscillation in the water caused by an area of rising barometric pressure adjoining an area of falling pressure. The pressure difference would create a sort of hill and valley in the lake surface, and the big wave with its followers would result from the water's effort to resume a horizontal surface. A similar seiche, subsequently described scientifically in Naval Institute Proceedings, rose in Lake Erie off Cleveland some years ago, caused several deaths...