Word: southern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Warm Springs, Ga. a reporter asked Franklin Roosevelt whether the report of his three-man railroad committee was on the way. The President asked whether he was supposed to be a clairvoyant. Another questioner asked whether he was pleased by Southern reaction to his Gainesville speech. To this the President, who likes to call Georgia his adopted State, made a reply that only an adopted Georgian would have given: that the only Southerner with whom he had talked was Irvin McDuffie, his Negro valet...
...their representatives' action on part of his current legislative program. Starting on his spring vacation, the President paused at Gainesville, Ga. to dedicate a public square named after him. Introduced to the crowd of 20,000 by Georgia's Senator Walter F. George, who like most other Southern Congressmen, last summer went on record against the Wages & Hours Bill, the President ignored Mr. George in his speech, pointedly patted the back of loyal Governor Eurith D. Rivers and then proceeded to give his favorite theme-that Recovery is being held up by "minority selfishness"-a new twist...
...this whole area get wages which are far too low. On the present scale of wages, and therefore on the present scale of buying power, the South cannot and will not succeed in establishing successful new industries." Not since Madam Secretary Perkins twitted Dixie on its shoelessness have Southerners taken from Washington such a jolt as came next. The President ascribed part of the South's economic difficulties to old-fashioned feudalism, added that: "When you come down to it, there is little difference between the feudal system and the fascist system. If you believe...
...people of the Ukraine are saturated with hatred for the Bolsheviks. . . . The conditions existing in the Ukraine are also found in Georgia, White Russia and among the populations and races of Southern Asia...
...interesting to note that the subjects selected by the two winners were resurrected from the era that produced the judges. A fine delivery of the modern verse of T. S. Eliot, and an eloquent presentation of the modern speech of a Southern Senator, went sadly unrewarded...