Word: tellings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House of Representatives with the wife, uncle (Frederic Adrian Delano) and mother of the man who made her father famous. There Diana, who is six, listened to that man deliver his sixth annual address to Congress on the State of the Union. Diana's father can tell her that, up to a point, it was Franklin Roosevelt's most smashingly successful message since his "The only thing we have to fear is Fear" speech of March 1933. After the November elections had showed Mr. Roosevelt's political stock at a six-year low, last week...
Father Hopkins could also tell his daughter that this was the first message to Congress during the delivery of which Roosevelt II received a thoroughgoing razz from the Opposition...
...Tell Men. Since Munich there has been a phenomenal increase in newspaper columnage about airplanes, big guns, gas masks, defense problems, industrial mobilization. They range from the expert military reporting of New York Timesman Hanson Baldwin to the jingoistic sloganeering ("Two Ships For One") of the tabloid New York News, but their effect is the same: stirring up a war psychology in the nation. That psychology has been on the rise in Washington since Franklin Roosevelt's "quarantine" speech in 1937. Publishers, editors, correspondents produce more & more newspaper stories about it, abetted by Roosevelt advisers like Assistant Secretary...
Lloyd Douglas' wife can tell when he is about to start a new novel by two signs: 1) he turns up in a smudged, sagging pair of trousers; 2) he does inspirational reading for his inspirational writing-medical journals and Walt Whitman. One day last year he put on his thinking pants, spotted this Whitman line: Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed the passage with you? Last week he published Disputed Passage (Houghton Mifflin, $2.50). As a personality pamphlet, it is a wow. As a novel, it is nothing much...
Swimming activities in the Ivy League Saturday evening proved what early-season meets generally, prove--that lots of training and a few more meets are necessary before anyone can tell just how the League struggle will come...