Word: warmly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ickornshaw, is a cripple. TIME never unduly stressed that circumstance, but TIME never glossed it over. Nor did TIME ignore the interesting fact of Edison's extreme deafness. Of how much greater historic interest is the physical condition of a U. S. President. When he goes to Warm Springs for treatment, TIME, the historian, must say what for. Were Mr. Roosevelt sensitive on the subject, the case might be altered. But his whole attitude is one of gallant unconcern...
...poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis) left his muscles atrophied from the waist down. ¶How he, a helpless cripple, was lifted to the rostrum of the Democratic convention at Masison square Garden to nominate Alfred Emanuel Smith for the Presidency in 1924. ¶ How he discovered the mineralized waters of Warm springs, Ga. as a cure for his infirmity in 1924. ¶How a cane had replaced crutches when he again nominated Al Smith at Houston in 1928. ¶How he was first hailed as "our next President" by friendly Georgians at Warm Springs following his 1928 State election...
...crutch, stick or assisting arm, about 15 steps. Declares his wife: "If the paralysis couldn't kill him, I guess the Presidency won't." The Man of the Year's attitude toward his affliction is one of gallant unconcern. After his November election he went to Warm Springs where he addressed others there taking the cure: "We've shown that we people here have determined to get over the small physical handicaps which after all don't amount to a hill of beans...
Cabinet. Yet to be selected were the ten men who can make or break an administration. The President-elect planned to do his choosing at Warm Springs during January...
...will soon fly back, U. S. residents give him credit for establishing in three parts of the Capital strategic bases stocked with food and other useful things to which members of the U. S. colony could have fled and taken refuge had the series of Chilean revolutions grown too warm...