Word: southern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Congress was supposed to be in hot revolt against his domination when, in April 1934, President Roosevelt got back from his Southern fishing jaunt. Yet 30 Senators and 200 Representatives were at the station with a band to greet him. To them he then addressed, in grim good humor, his famed "tough guy" speech: "I have come back with all sorts of new lessons which I learned from barracuda and sharks . . . etc., etc." (TIME, April 23, 1934). Within a few days the revolt was over and Congress settled down to whip through the President's long list of "must...
Last week Franklin Roosevelt again returned from a Southern fishing trip to another revolting Congress. There were no Congressmen on hand to greet him, only a few members of his private and official families. Without any speechmaking, the President bundled into a closed car, sped to the White House...
...train rolled through Kentucky and Tennessee, taffy-colored Arthur Mitchell continued to ride with the white passengers, enjoy the comforts he had paid for, unconcerned that these two States, like other Southern States, still have laws that require the segregation of Negro passengers on railroad trains. At Memphis the train picked up several Rock Island cars and headed into Arkansas...
...Plaintiff Mitchell's description of an Arkansas Jim Crow car: ". . . The car was divided by partitions and partly used for carrying baggage, . . . poorly ventilated, filthy, filled with stench and odors emitting from the toilet and other filth, which is indescribable." His description of the language a Southern train conductor used on a member of the U. S. Congress: ". . . Too opprobrious and profane, vulgar and filthy to be spread upon the records of this court...
...General Franco. The massacre of Guernica was sharp in every mind. Should General Franco be advised to repeat that mass bombing of a civil population there would be no way of stopping him. Reconnoitering on the Basque Front, 18 Rightist planes became lost in fog, came down perforce in southern France. Allowing them to return, French authorities recorded officially for the first time how preponderant in Spanish skies are U. S. makes of planes-twelve of the strayed ships were Boeing fighters...