Word: warm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Warm Springs, Ga., where Franklin Roosevelt was nearing the end of his ten-day holiday, it was 12:45 amIn their cottage near his "Little White House,'' the ten newspapermen detailed to cover his activities were playing cards, listening to the radio or sleeping. At this point Marvin Mclntyre, who had previously telephoned to advise the correspondents to hold their "overnight" stories for a mysterious Presidential announcement, arrived with a handful of typewritten sheets which he proceeded to distribute. Ready for something remarkable, the reporters found the release up to their highest expectations...
...purpose of the midnight letter was to make front-page news in time to affect House debate on the bill which for a month has been causing the major political battle of the nation. Day after the Senate passed the bill last fortnight, the battleground shifted from Washington to Warm Springs when Franklin Roosevelt told an outdoor press conference its passage proved "that the Senate cannot be purchased by organized telegrams based on direct misrepresentation." Next day the Senate spent most of its time gloomily asking itself whether the passage of the bill did not in actuality prove that...
...President Cárdenas, whom he found surrounded by resplendent military aides and members of his Cabinet. The Mexican President did not confer with Josephus Daniels but read off a statement which the Ambassador said he thought constituted a diplomatic note. It was flashed to President Roosevelt at Warm Springs. "I am gratified to have thus formally received this important expression of Mexico's deep friendship for my country," read the Ambassador's statement, "I expressed this gratification to the President...
...Rushed by airmail to Franklin Roosevelt at Warm Springs, Ga. was the special report on the railroad crisis prepared by Interstate Commerce Commissioners Walter M. W. Splawn, Joseph B. Eastman and Charles D. Mahttie. Meantime, in Washington, the Association of American Railroads and the Railway Labor Executives Association "decided to wait and see what the President is going to do'' before discussing wage cuts. Said R.L.E.A. President George L. Harrison after the meeting: "They told us how poor they were." Said A.A.R. President J. J. Pelley: "And they told us how poor they were...
...love affair is approaching a climax, de Montherlant stops the story to write a leisurely essay on happiness. Men, he says, have a negative conception of happiness. But "a woman will say to you that she is happy as she will say to you that she is warm or cold. 'What are you thinking?' 'That I am happy.' ... A woman who is happy and loved (and who loves) asks for nothing more. A man who loves and is loved needs something else as well. . . . Man seldom feels anything but desire for woman, and that woman cannot...