Word: warren
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least 100,000. Franklin Roosevelt's emissary thereupon inserted into his prepared speech a hearty Roosevelt endorsement of Candidate Ely, predicted his election and added: "I know that the President will be thrilled when I give him that report." Opposing Democrat Ely is able, hulking, frizz-haired William Warren Barbour, a Republican who very nearly fits the "liberal" definition of Franklin Roosevelt and who was beaten out of his Senate seat in 1936 by William H. Smathers. Until Boss Hague and Boss Roosevelt joined forces, it had looked unlikely that Democrat Ely could head off ex-Senator Barbour...
After putting his foot in his mouth while speaking to the press during the Washington Disarmament Conference, President Warren Gamaliel Harding, to save diplomatic embarrassment, ordered that correspondents must put their questions to him in writing. Calvin Coolidge perfected this technique by inventing "a White House spokesman" to whom his words must be attributed. Last week when Franklin Roosevelt wanted to read U. S. Business and Labor a lecture on "sabre-rattling" (see p. 63), comparing them to the bad boys of European politics in a way that might have provoked protests from "friendly nations," the "spokesman" reappeared. He also...
Edward H. Warren '95, professor of Law, known to generations of Law students as "The Bull," has been granted an indefinite leave of absence because of ill health. He returned ill from a summer in England...
...flagrant nepotist, Franklin Roosevelt has found places for four members of his large clan in his Administration: Son James, Secretary ($10,000); late First Cousin (mother's side) Warren Delano Robbins, Minister to Canada ($10,000); late Fifth Cousin, Henry Latrobe Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary to the Navy ($10,000); Mrs. Irene de Bruyn Robbins (Warren Delano Robbins' widow), assistant chief of the State Department's Foreign Service Buildings Office ($6,500). Two others, Uncle Frederick A. Delano (Vice-Chairman of National Resources Committee & Chairman of National Park & Planning Commission), and Cousin William A. Delano (member of National...
Victorious by 4-to-3 over the discredited incumbent. Warren L. Bishop, was boyish, clean-cut Robert F. ("Bob") Bradford, Republican reform candidate for district attorney of Middlesex County (TIME, Sept. 19). His Democratic counterpart, clean-cut, boyish Thomas H. ("Tom") Eliot, running against four Irishmen, narrowly won nomination for the House...