Word: whats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight, Arthur Vandenberg, U. S. Senator since 1928, on the strength of the tradition he trailed 14 years ago, made a bet with his destiny. The stakes were the highest any U. S. citizen can set - the Presidency, in 1941. For Senator Vandenberg went to battle Franklin Roosevelt over...
Beneath that surface raged the first bitter skirmishes of what may be the greatest legislative battle since the 1919 Senate fight over ratification of the Versailles Treaty and entrance of the U. S. into the League of Nations.
But Eric and Erwin did not much like the Nazi doctrines preached at them by an uncle: they sounded somehow different from what they had heard in Wisconsin. Then one day the order came to report for the labor corps on October 1.
> Franklin Roosevelt is a changeable, charming, warmhearted, gullible, formidable man. ". . . When crossed he is hard, stubborn, resourceful, relentless," Moley wrote to his sister Nell in 1932. ". . . He seems quite naturally warm and friendly . . . because he just enjoys the pleasant and engaging role, as a charming woman does. . . . The frightening aspect...
*-Harper ($3). Columnist Walter Winchell this week gossiped that when a Cabinet member asked Mr. Roosevelt what he thought of the Moley memoirs, the President replied: "... I trusted him."