Word: whites
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House Correspondents' Association canceled its annual dinner for the President at the Hotel Mayflower, partly to save Franklin Roosevelt the embarrassment of crossing an A. F. of L. picket line.* However, since waiters, cooks and bartenders at the Mayflower and twelve other Capital hotels had struck for a closed shop, Actors' Equity Association would have forbidden professional entertainers to appear; food & service would have been substandard; Secret Service men would have strenuously objected to the President risking a picket line, even had he been willing...
...which Congress had lopped off it. Last week he asked-but without annoyance. Before publicly putting the heat on Congress he told his press conference that he would ask only for as much as WPAdministrator Harrington found was needed. Three days later-behind closed doors in the White House-he politely asked a House subcommittee headed by Colorado's Taylor to provide the money. Not often before has Franklin Roosevelt said "Pretty please" to Congress...
...himself in the Congress. Since Speaker "Uncle Joe" Cannon (1837-1927), who finally met in Jack Garner his match at poker, no man, not even the late convivial Nick Longworth, enjoyed such influence among members on both sides of the aisle in both Houses as this stubby, stubborn, pink & white billiken with the beak of an owl, eyebrows like cupid's-wings, tongue of a cowhand. He takes Capitol freshmen aside and instructs them philosophically. "Now, Scott," he said, for example, to Senator Lucas of Illinois, "first thing to do is to get other Senators' respect...
...last annual message was a safe one, when he ironically asked whether Congress would like to economize on WPA relief, PWA projects, pensions or payrolls. More bitterly John Garner, life-long preacher and practitioner of thrift, feels that Economy is impossible so long as "that man is in the White House." To the President he says: "There'll be no economy unless you lead...
...peace negotiators. The six-A. F. of L.'s Harry Bates, Matthew Woll, Tom Rickert; C. I. O.'s John Lewis, Philip Murray, Sidney Hillman - and Madam Secretary Perkins listened respectfully. But Franklin Roosevelt as he addressed them at the White House before the beginning of their labors must have been pretty certain that most of them had their fingers crossed...