Word: warms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Immediately after the conference in Washington adjourned, High Commissioner McNutt (who starts next week for the Philippines) hurried to Warm Springs to put the matter up to Franklin Roosevelt...
Knowing the importance of the friendship of the gentleman at Warm Springs, he gave particular praise to the provisions of the Philippine Constitution which denies the Philippine Supreme Court power to declare laws unconstitutional without a two-thirds vote, which requires justices to retire at 70. Said he: "There is no possibility in the Philippines for any court to say that if we pass an act regulating the number of hours of labor or prohibiting the use of child labor, or other measures of this nature, that the court will declare the action of the Legislature unconstitutional...
...young Cuban arrived in the U. S. unknown to the press, went roving about the country acquainting himself with U. S. life and thought. Last week, having completed his course of study, Dr. Pedro Martinez Fraga turned up at the White House, caught President Roosevelt, about to leave for Warm Springs, just in time to reveal himself in a courteous exchange as new Cuban Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary...
Idle Dream, Having soothed alarmists by radio, the President next day offered further reassurance by packing his bags for his customary Warm Springs trip as if no crisis were present or in prospect. His new strategy advanced when Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings took the stand as first witness at Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the Court plan...
Chief rival of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to succeed Stanley Baldwin as Prime Minister is the First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Samuel Hoare, who last week scored heavy personal and political gains with a speech on naval and air defense which caught the warm approval of the House, recalled that Sir Samuel not many years ago was Secretary for Air and today is promoting close co-operation between these two fighting services, previously too often on quarrelsome terms...