Word: whats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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On p. 14 of your issue of Nov. 6 you make reference to the work of the Dies Committee and my work in connection with it. You state among other things- "Unhappy Mr Voorhis, knowing not what he had done, had already voted to publish the names, addresses titles and...
What set Detective Lippmann to brooding on the mystery was a Washington rumor that after Christmas President Roosevelt will declare his intention about a third term. Arousing Amateur Lippmann's well-bred scorn were the feverish efforts of other sleuths to solve the case by strong-arm methods. To...
But what if the incumbent should accept? There is no need for anxiety, said the detective: the ritual requires that the President be given the opportunity to refuse a third term; practical politics makes him refuse it. "The only man who could conceivably obtain a third term is one who...
Detective Lippmann's analysis of Franklin Roosevelt's motives: "Last year, when his party was split, his personal prestige at low ebb ... I should imagine that he may have considered seriously making a fight for a third nomination. . . . But now the situation has been changed, not by the...
Few rituals in U. S. life hit so hard, go so deep, are so unsparing and dramatic as the disbarring of a prominent lawyer. Disbarment is to the lawyer what being read out of meeting was to the New England villager. It is a judgment that a man who has...