Word: whitings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into the oval study on the second floor of the White House trooped the Washington press corps, in response to a summons promising them "the greatest human interest story" in the six years of the Roosevelt Presidency. There they found Franklin Roosevelt, beaming but serious. He had just been host to an impressive array of luncheon guests: Historians Charles A. Beard, Frederic L. Paxson, William E. Dodd. Samuel Eliot Morison; President Frank Porter Graham of the University of North Carolina and President Edmund Ezra Day of Cornell; Economist Stuart Chase and Poet Archibald MacLeish; Mr. Roosevelt's biographer, Ernest...
Franklin Roosevelt himself dished up something that looked like balderdash. At a White House press conference he conveyed the contradictory ideas that military spending must be on a pay-as-you-go basis and that this does not mean that the U. S. must Pay in the same year that it Spends. On top of this, he declared that pay-as-you-go Rearmament does not necessarily entail new taxes. Since the U. S. is still running whopping deficits, the implication was that Rearmament must replace some other form of spending, but the President went on to say that military...
...confusing was this mélange that White House Secretary Stephen Early afterwards undertook to clarify it. In doing so, he volunteered the most revealing statement yet made on the subject. The President, said Mr. Early, has not decided whether to expand Rearmament at all. This amounted to saying that U. S. citizens lately have been gazing at nothing but a huge trial balloon. Not even this, however, was the most astonishing thing in the Administration's Rearmament fuss...
...smuggled in a dwarf for Snow White, a wig for Shirley Temple, shoes for Garbo, size 9, a necktie for Charlie McCarthy, a rattle for Mickey Mouse and a corncob pipe for Popeye...
Again it will be Charley Lutz, Fred Beckel, Homer Peabody, Lupe Lupien, and Sam White who will answer the opening whistle for the Feslermen. Opposing them will be a strong B. U. team led by talented Captain Solly Nechtem and Red Kopecky at forward and center respectively. Experienced Jack Rotman and Ted Rosenthal hold down the guard spots, and Russ Lawry completes the quintet...