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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...come to be one of the most historic speeches of his career. It was a confidential, informal speech, all but devoid of the ringing Roosevelt oratorical tone. There was none of the usual recrimination, reprimand or warning. In his studied informality, the President departed often from his prepared text (49 times for a total of 700 words...
...occasion was far greater than any words Franklin Roosevelt spoke. As the Senators watched him-perceptibly leaner, slightly stooped over the table, following the text with his forefinger, rubbing his chin when he ad-libbed, occasionally taking a sip of water in a thin hand that patently trembled-they knew that he was talking primarily to them. In numberless ways, Franklin Roosevelt made his main point over & over again: I think Yalta is pretty good; it's not perfect, but it's a good start. I also know that 33 of you, Democrats and Republicans, can band together...
Into the breach stepped Vermont's Republican Senator Warren R. Austin. While Stettinius & Co. were gasping for air, smart Warren Austin announced that he could not read the Spanish text of the resolution, made delay a point of Latin courtesy. This stratagem gave him and Texas' Tom Connally, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, time to work out a compromise...
...Russian Literature Ernest J. Simmons. The one radio stunt of the week that didn't come off was an address by Moscow Novelist S. Sergeyev-Tsensky; the vagaries of short wave kept the WTAG audience from hearing his "Dear listeners in Worcester . . .", but Moscow obligingly cabled the text...
...that we should encourage 'really good families,' rather than 'indiscriminate large families' . . . gauged solely from an economic viewpoint. [But] it is unpleasant to meet a sneer, however oblique and qualified, at 'families of twelve children.' And . . . it's irritating to meet a text so involved that it has to be read and re-read...