Word: weekends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hyde Park, the President toured his well-grown fields in the small car which he drives himself, attended church, chose Dutchess County field stone for a new post office at Poughkeepsie. Most interesting visitor of the weekend was Bronx Democratic Leader and New York Secretary of State Edward J. Flynn. Correspondents guessed that Leader Flynn was trying to line up Presidential aid for Judge Jeremiah T. Mahoney in New York's mayoralty fight...
...weekend cruise with Secretary Ickes, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Josephine Roche, Theodore F. Green, erudite freshman Senator from Rhode Island, and Governor Murphy, Franklin Roosevelt sailed down to Quantico, Va., where he attended to one international affair by broadcasting to France on the occasion of the dedication of the A. E. F.'s war memorials. Thereafter he returned to Washington hoping he would not have to attend to another international affair, the war in China. Attending to it would mean recognizing that war exists within the meaning of the Neutrality Act, and he and Secretary Hull had resolutely...
...tune lilted all last week through the heads of the 500-odd members of the U, S. Congress: Home, Sweet Home. Senator LaFollette, who had spent the previous weekend yachting with the President, broadcast to the press his view that Congress should stay in session until a ''comprehensive legislative schedule" had been enacted. He said that he spoke only for himself, which in one sense was true since he is the only member of the Progressive Party in the Senate, but Senator Barkley, the new majority leader, who had also been on the yachting party was promptly quizzed...
...passed the old one, the Governor's support having been weakened by the fact that one Democratic Senator was unavoidably detained in jail. Defection of other Democrats led to heavy fisticuffing on the floor, after which the Senate abruptly adjourned, leaving the House still sitting. Over the weekend one lone Senator carried on as a sort of one-man rump, while seven House members met in what no one was quite sure was rump or regular session. Meantime Governor Murphy got away from it all, cruising on the Potomac with Franklin D. Roosevelt, announcing before boarding a plane...
Clifford Pierson ("Biff") Hoffman, famed onetime (1926-28) Stanford fullback, was driving his wife and their good friends, Mr. & Mrs. John McCann, in the Hoffman car on a weekend outing to Aptos, Calif. He was allegedly speeding down a tree-lined road at 60 m.p.h. when another car popped out at an intersection. They collided. Mrs. McCann was hurled out, suffered brain concussion, severe cuts & bruises...