Word: whitings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sympathetic toward the D. A. R. in most matters, but I feel that in this case they have acted in the only decent manner possible. After all, it is better to pique Mrs. Roosevelt than to insult the entire white population of a big city...
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...Unlike other jobholders, the President of the U. S. never gets a vacation completely free of official business. President Roosevelt, according to the official log book, has been absent from the White House, for two days or more, 64 times in six years. Majority of Presidential trips have been to Hyde Park and Warm Springs. Next to the Warm Springs baths, sea voyages, of which he has had 14, are his most relaxing respites...
Under-Secretary John Hanes solved this phraseological problem at the Treasury by having printed in black on a batch of blue cards, to be attached to interoffice correspondence, an oft-repeated question of Secretary Morgenthau: "Does it contribute to Recovery?" At the White House, when Mr. Roosevelt expressed displeasure at "appeasement," correspondents asked him for a better word. He mused a while, then said he would look in his Thesaurus, tell them later...
...Most appeasing of all, Secretary Morgenthau announced after a lunch at the White House that President Roosevelt had dropped his plan to ask Congress for an increase in the U. S. statutory debt limit, from...