Word: warms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Warm Springs, Ga. a reporter asked Franklin Roosevelt whether the report of his three-man railroad committee was on the way. The President asked whether he was supposed to be a clairvoyant. Another questioner asked whether he was pleased by Southern reaction to his Gainesville speech. To this the President, who likes to call Georgia his adopted State, made a reply that only an adopted Georgian would have given: that the only Southerner with whom he had talked was Irvin McDuffie, his Negro valet...
...Warm Springs visitor was Ambassador to France Bill Bullitt, with whom the President discussed, among other means of improving the personnel of the foreign service, the feasibility of a "West Point" for diplomats...
...Warm Springs, the President went swimming in the glass-enclosed pool, drove over the red-clay Georgia roads in a brand-new Ford touring car (license: FDR). In Gainesville, he took his first ride in one of the new cars which he will henceforth use when exhibiting himself to crowds . Specially built 16-cylinder, nine-passenger Cadillacs, they have handles on the windshield for Secret Service men, a stock of tear gas bombs in a compartment behind the driver's seat. Floor space behind the compartment contains plenty of room for the President to lie down in, in case...
...Latest addition to the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, of which Franklin Roosevelt is one of the founders, is a small nondenominational chapel which, between five rows of pews and the altar, has a wide floor space in which infantile paralytics who cannot kneel to pray may worship in their wheel chairs. Last week, the President and his party attended dedicatory services conducted by Atlanta's Episcopal Bishop Henry J. Mikell. C. Back from a three-week lecture tour on the West Coast, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt arrived in Warm Springs after a plane trip from Seattle via Atlanta...
...Abroad it was indicated that prompt official acceptances would be forwarded from Great Britain, France, The Netherlands and Belgium. Meanwhile, before details of the plan had been worked out and before the State Department had explained precisely what the committee would be expected to accomplish, Franklin Roosevelt told a Warm Springs, Ga. press conference that he hoped the U. S. would maintain its 150-year-old tradition by becoming an asylum for political refugees not only from Germany and Austria but from Russia, Italy and Spain as well. Whether or not his invitation included such refugees as Leon Trotsky, currently...