Word: franklin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington, along with the Keep America out of War Congress, the National Maritime Union, and Columnists Krock, Denny, Flynn, Thompson, et al. No, said that old Border Statesman Cordell Hull of Pickett County, Tenn., Secretary of State through the 2,445 days of the first two administrations of Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
...When Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 ruled that this year's Thanksgiving be celebrated a week earlier on November twenty-third, his opinion as former editor decided the policy of the Crimson. But the force of tradition has struck again. In the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Governor Saltonstall, muttering something about the good old days of our forefathers, contrarily changed the date back to November thirtieth...
Before long Edward Bruce's good friend, Franklin D. Roosevelt, had him heading a newly created Section of Fine Arts, charged with supervising such decoration. Very few ladies in cheesecloth have found their way into Federal buildings since. The sort of art which has replaced them was amply demonstrated last week by a 456-item show in Washington's Corcoran Gallery, celebrating the Section of Fine Arts' fifth anniversary...
...last week Franklin Roosevelt, brooding over his bed-breakfast, decided to resurrect a long-laid ghost-that of the "White House spokesman." Unghostly, cherry-cheeked Secretary Steve Early got the call. Spokesmanlike, he asked the U. S. Press to consider the "timing" of Russian Premier Molotov's blast at U. S. foreign policy-on the day of a crucial House vote on the 1939 Neutrality Act. Later that day the White House released without comment past correspondence between President Roosevelt and U. S. S. R. President Kalinin, in which Mr. Kalinin thanked Mr. Roosevelt for a non-aggression proposal...
...days later, after Representative John McCormack of Boston had demanded the recall from Moscow of U. S. Ambassador Steinhardt, Franklin Roosevelt remarked softly that bad manners should never beget bad manners...